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单词 natality
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Definition of natality in English:

natality

noun nəˈtalɪti
mass noun
  • The ratio of the number of births to the size of the population; birth rate.

    in spite of falling natality, the population as a whole went up
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Lower birth rate and greater parental attention to individual children helped advance the lower death rate - which in turn encouraged further reductions in natality.
    • Following this approach, we can define four basic processes: natality, mortality, immigration, and emigration, each modeled by a separate model fragment.
    • He notes that the Japanese government during the 1980s was using measures to encourage natality.
    • There are also mounting indications that the skewed child male/female ratio is a consequence of increasing gender differences in natality, i.e. sex-selective abortion.
    • The prospect of yet more exploitative taxes to support reproducer indulgence means that a questioning of the bio-political privileging of natality is long overdue.

Origin

Late 19th century: from French natalité, from nat- 'born', from the verb nasci.

Rhymes

banality, duality, fatality, finality, ideality, legality, locality, modality, morality, orality, reality, regality, rurality, tonality, totality, venality, vitality, vocality
 
 

Definition of natality in US English:

natality

noun
  • The ratio of the number of births to the size of the population; birth rate.

    in spite of falling natality, the population as a whole went up
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Lower birth rate and greater parental attention to individual children helped advance the lower death rate - which in turn encouraged further reductions in natality.
    • There are also mounting indications that the skewed child male/female ratio is a consequence of increasing gender differences in natality, i.e. sex-selective abortion.
    • He notes that the Japanese government during the 1980s was using measures to encourage natality.
    • The prospect of yet more exploitative taxes to support reproducer indulgence means that a questioning of the bio-political privileging of natality is long overdue.
    • Following this approach, we can define four basic processes: natality, mortality, immigration, and emigration, each modeled by a separate model fragment.

Origin

Late 19th century: from French natalité, from nat- ‘born’, from the verb nasci.

 
 
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