Definitions for fatality
feɪˈtæl ɪ ti, fə-fa·tal·i·ty
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fatality, human deathnoun
a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
"a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities"
the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortality.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Etymology: fatalité, French, from fatal.
The stoicks held a fatality, and a fixed unalterable course of events; but then they held also, that they fell out by a necessity emergent from and inherent in the things themselves, which God himself could not alter. Robert South, Sermons.
By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting to be drawn into the stream of the present vogue. Charles I .
All the father’s precaution could not secure the son from the fatality of dying by a lion. Roger L'Estrange, Fables.
Seven times seven, or forty-nine, nine times nine, or eighty-one, and seven times nine, or the years sixty-three, is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Bro.
Fatality refers to the occurrence of death resulting from a disaster, accident, illness, or other adverse situations. It is often used to measure the severity of such occurrences, indicating the number or rate of deaths involved.
the state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control
the state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility
that which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event
Etymology: [L. fatalitas: cf. F. fatalit]
Fatality is a fictional character, a former supervillain in the DC Comics universe. She was created by Ron Marz and first appeared in Green Lantern vol 3 #83 in February 1997.
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The numerical value of fatality in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
The numerical value of fatality in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Never seen a fatality, and I've been out here a number of years, never seen anything like this, it's always sad to see a fatality. Aviation is really very safe, but it is unforgiving of mistakes.
They're not going to be counted, your fatality rate is not a true fatality rate.
If Japan is serious about improving the management and quality of Japanese firms, the related agencies have to be more committed to prevent accidents even before there's been a fatality. That should be their role.
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance -- that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.
For my analysis I only include crashes where there was at least one passenger fatality -- which is the relevant stat for those with a fear of flying, i then incorporate the volume of flights, weighted to the most recent 10 years, to provide the final' one in a million' statistics.
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