Life
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See also: life
English
Etymology 1
Proper noun
Life
- (chiefly Christian Science) God.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, , →OCLC, Canto XXXII, page 51:
- Then one deep love doth supersede
All other, when her ardent gaze
Roves from the living brother’s face,
And rests upon the Life indeed.
- (cellular automata) Conway's Game of Life.
- 1988 January 26, David Hiebeler, “Fast way to update grids”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
- Basically, I'm looking for a fast (the fastest?) way of updating grids, where each cell has to look at an arbitrary number of its neighbors. I've seen some fast life-programs, but often they took advantage of particular quirks of the rules of Life.
- 1999 May 13, Thomas Womack, “3D automata with Life-style objects”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
- Is there a known 3D totalistic or semi-totalistic automaton (Life is the latter sort - state at time t+1 depends on state at time t and count of neighbours) which exhibits the same sort of behaviour as Life (that is, a reasonable range of naturally-occuring still lives and short-period oscillators)?
- 2003 February 20, Rolf Wilms, “Fast implementation of core algorithm for Conway's Game of Life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
- Maybe the RolfLife algorithm could be of value to someone implementing life i.e. in the vertex shader of a (DirectX 9) graphics card, where few lines of code and no LUT are favoured.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Variant of Leaf.
Proper noun
Life (plural Lifes)
- A surname.
Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Life is the 37591st most common surname in the United States, belonging to 592 individuals. Life is most common among White (79.73%) and Black/African American (13.51%) individuals.
Further reading
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Life”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 436.
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Pronunciation
Proper noun
an Life f (genitive na Life)