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Life cycle, life-cycle, or lifecycle may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Life Cycles (The Word Alive album), 2012
  • Life Cycle (Dave Holland album), 1983
  • Life Cycle (Sieges Even album), 1988
  • Life Cycle (Whit Dickey album), 2001
  • Life Cycle (Sakerock album), 2005
  • Lifecycle (album), a 2008 album by Yellowjackets

Science and technology

  • Biological life cycle, the sequence of life stages that an organism undergoes from conception to reproduction
  • Life-cycle hypothesis, in economics
  • Program lifecycle phase, a stage that a computer program undergoes, from creation to deployment
  • Software release life cycle
  • Systems development life cycle, a process for planning, creating, testing, and deploying, maintaining, and ultimate disposal of system in all phases of existence

Business

  • Enterprise life cycle, the process of changing a business enterprise
  • Project life cycle
  • Product lifecycle, the stages in the lifespan of a commercial or consumer product
  • Records life-cycle, the treatment of records from their creation to archiving or destruction
  • Life-cycle assessment, the analysis of the environmental impacts associated with a product
  • Technology life cycle, the commercial gain of a product

Other uses

  • Jewish life cycle, a series of traditions associated with major life events in Judaism
  • Life cycle ritual, a ritual to mark certain events in an individual's lifetime

See also

  • Āśrama (stage), life stages in Hinduism
  • Adobe LiveCycle, a server software product used to build applications that automate business processes
  • Cycle of Life (disambiguation)
  • Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, in psychoanalysis
  • Jeevana Chakra (), a 1985 Indian Telugu-language film
  • Life history (disambiguation)
  • New product development, the process of bringing a new product to market
  • Object lifetime, of an object in object-oriented programming