Life

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English

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Etymology 1

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Proper noun

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Life

  1. (chiefly Christian Science) God.
  2. (cellular automata) Conway's Game of Life.
    • 1988 January 26, David Hiebeler, “Fast way to update grids”, in comp.theory.cell-automata[1] (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[2] (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[sic] 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[3] (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
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Etymology 2

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Variant of Leaf.

Proper noun

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Life (plural Lifes)

  1. A surname.
Statistics
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  • 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.

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Irish

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Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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an Life f (genitive na Life)

  1. Liffey (a river in Ireland)

Descendants

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  • English: Liffey
  • Fingallian: Liffy