Time to Live

nouncandidate·updated May 9, 2026

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A value in an Internet Protocol packet that tells a network router whether or not the packet has been in the network too long and should be discarded.

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Network92%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Sensitivity

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Information Class

—95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Time to Lives
possessive: Time to Live's
pluralpossessive: Time to Lives'

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