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Definition of half-life noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

half-life

noun
half-life pronunciation American
[countable]
 
1 (physics) the time taken for the radioactivity of a substance to fall to half its original value2 (chemistry) the time taken for the concentration of a reactant to fall to half of its original value in a chemical reaction