Определение infant mortality в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь
This entry gives the number of deaths of infants under one year old in a given year per 1,000 live births in the same year This rate is often used an indicator of the level of health in a country World Factbook: http: //www odci gov/cia/publications/factbook/notes html
the first stage of the product life cycle in use, characterized by high but declining failure rate
n It is common lore among hackers (and in the electronics industry at large; this term is possibly techspeak by now) that the chances of sudden hardware failure drop off exponentially with a machine's time since power-up (that is, until the relatively distant time at which enough mechanical wear in I/O devices and thermal-cycling stress in components has accumulated for the machine to start going senile) Up to half of all chip and wire failures happen within a new system's first few weeks; such failures are often referred to as `infant mortality' problems (or, occasionally, as `sudden infant death syndrome') See {bathtub curve}, {burn-in period}
The observed tendency for some electronic devices to fail in the first few months of operation In-line and end-of-line tests are used to detect defects that cause infant mortality
is defined as the number of infant deaths (deaths within the first year of life) per 1000 live births