Life cycle
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Life cycle, life-cycle, or lifecycle may refer to:
Science and academia
- Biological life cycle, the sequence of life stages that an organism undergoes from conception to reproduction
 - Life-cycle hypothesis, in economics
 - Erikson's stages of psychosocial development, in psychoanalysis
 - Life-cycle of phonological processes, in linguistics
 
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
 - New product development, the process of bringing a new product to market
 - Life-cycle assessment, the analysis of the environmental impacts associated with a product
 - Technology life cycle, the commercial gain of a product
 
Software
- Software development life cycle
 - Software release life cycle
 - Object lifetime of an object in object-oriented programming
 - Program lifecycle phases are the stages a computer program undergoe, from initial creation to deployments.
 
Systems engineering
- Systems development life cycle, a process for planning, creating, testing, and deploying, maintaining, and ultimate disposal of system in all phases of existence
 
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
 
Other uses
- Āśrama (stage), life stages in Hinduism
 - 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
 - Records life-cycle, the treatment of records from their creation to archiving or destruction
 
See also
- Adobe LiveCycle, a server software product used to build applications that automate business processes
 - Life history (disambiguation)
 - Jeevana Chakra (lit. 'Life Cycle'), a 1985 Indian Telugu-language film