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Noun: mortality table  mor'ta-li-tee'tey-bul
  1. An actuarial table indicating life expectancy and probability of death as a function of age, sex, and occupation etc.
    "The mortality table showed that smokers had a lower life expectancy"

Derived forms: mortality tables

Type of: actuarial table, statistical table

Encyclopedia: Mortality table