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Vinony

survivorship

noun

  1. state of having survived (continued to live)
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree English survivor Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English survivorship From survivor + -ship.

  1. The state of being a survivor.

    “We therefore seek a method for response-function normalization method which involves manipulating empirical curves that result from unconstrainted empirical fits of the corrected survivorship data.”

  2. The number or percentage of young that survive to adulthood.
  3. A right whereby a person becomes entitled to property by reason of his having survived another person who had an interest in it. It is one of the elements of a joint tenancy.