See Also: survival(dictionary)
survival kit(dictionary)
Survival(medicine)
survival(dictionary)
Survival Rates(health)
Median survival(health)
tissue survival(medicine)
survival time(medicine)
survival rate(medicine)
survival analysis(medicine)

survival (iou)



survival noun. L16.
[from SURVIVE verb + -AL1.]
The action or fact of continuing to live after some event. L16.
A. N. Wilson The hospital seemed to think his chances of survival were fifty-fifty.
b. Continuance after the end or cessation of something else or after some event; continued existence; spec. continuance of a custom, observance, etc., after the disappearance of the circumstances in which it originated. E19.
Times Educational Supplement Such a scheme would..make a school's survival dependent on its ability to attract enough pupils.
c. The practice of surviving or coping with harsh or warlike conditions, as an outdoor activity. Usu. attrib. L20.
A thing that continues to exist after the cessation of something else, or of other things of the kind; a surviving remnant; spec. a surviving custom, observance, etc. E18.
W. Haggard The man was a sort of dinosaur, a survival from another age.
Phrases: survival of the fittest Biology the continued existence of organisms which are best adapted to their environment, with the extinction of others, as a concept in the Darwinian theory of evolution (cf. natural selection s.v. NATURAL adjective).
Comb.: survival bag a large plastic bag used by climbers as a protection against exposure; survival curve a graph showing how the number of survivors varies with the size of a radiation dose or with the length of time after a dose; a graph showing the proportion of a population living after any given age; survival kit a pack of emergency rations etc., esp. as carried by servicemen; survival value (a) Biology the property of a character that makes the individuals possessing it more likely to survive and reproduce; (b) the ability to survive.