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Life Cycle

nounid 85654·updated May 18, 2026
verified

the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced

polysemousMWE

Attested in

NIST SP 800-171 Rev 3 - Protecting CUI in Nonfederal Systems7 citations · 7 machine-matched · observed 2026-09-01 under anchor/0.9/36451/2026-09-01
03.11.01.b ¶ 103.15.02.c ¶ 103.16.01 ¶ 203.17.01.c ¶ 203.17.02 ¶ 23.2.2 ¶ 253.2.2 ¶ 82

Classifications

Entity Type

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Life Cycles
possessive
Life Cycle's
pluralpossessive
Life Cycles'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary2 sensesview framework →
§1
a series of stages through which an organism passes between recurrences of a primary stage
§2
the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced
NIST SP 800-171r31 senseview framework →
§1 · attested_usage_pack_match
No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 7 citations in that document; a definition is pending curation.
Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
Legacy lexicon import1 senseview framework →
§1 · legacy_primary
the course of developmental changes in an organism from fertilized zygote to maturity when another zygote can be produced
DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column

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Incoming relationships

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