Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word AGING

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Definitions of AGING

1. The process of becoming older or more mature.
2. The deliberate process of making something (such as an antique) appear (or, in science fiction, become) older than it is.
3. Becoming elderly.
4. Wear; wear and tear.
5. inflection of age
6. (gerontology) The accumulation of damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time; the progressing loss of health, mobility, vibrancy and body functionality, resulting in biological death.

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Examples of Using AGING in a Sentence

• Some organisms, such as Turritopsis dohrnii, are biologically immortal; however, they can still die from means other than aging.
• Originally concerned with infants and children, the field has expanded to include adolescence, adult development, aging, and the entire lifespan.
• Jacob is said to have bought Esau's birthright and, with his mother's help, deceived his aging father to bless him instead of Esau.
• China faces the challenge of an aging population due to increased life expectancy and declining birth rates.
• Graphite pencils (traditionally known as "lead pencils") produce grey or black marks that are easily erased, but otherwise resistant to moisture, most solvents, ultraviolet radiation and natural aging.
• Sri Lanka's population is aging faster than any other nation in South Asia and has the fifth highest rapidly growing population of older people in Asia after China, Thailand, South Korea and Japan.
• It is an aging red giant star 90% as massive as the Sun that has cooled and expanded to a radius 54 times greater than it.
• Uncharred white oak casks previously used for the aging of port, rum or sherry are also sometimes used.
• The aging King Charles XIV John would suffer a stroke on his 81st birthday in 1844, dying little more than a month later.
• System power margin reflects the excess signal level, present at the input of the receiver, that is available to compensate for (a) the effects of component aging in the transmitter, receiver, or physical transmission medium, and (b) a deterioration in propagation conditions.
• The film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a highly regarded but aging Broadway star, and Anne Baxter as Eve Harrington, an ambitious young fan who maneuvers herself into Channing's life, ultimately threatening Channing's career and her personal relationships.
• University of Cologne has 4 Clusters of Excellence; CECAD Cluster of Excellence for Aging Research, Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute: Markets & Public Policy, CEPLAS Cluster of Excellence for Plant Sciences and Cluster of Excellence Matter and Light for Quantum Information (ML4Q).
• Others are coloured with caramel colouring to imitate the effect of aging, and some are produced using a combination of aging and colouring.
• Sandwich generation, adults caring for their aging parents and their young children at the same time.
• As an ingredient in skin-care products, it is used to reduce wrinkles and other effects of skin aging.
• The story focuses on Apple Annie (May Robson), an aging and wretched fruit seller in New York City, whose daughter Louise (Jean Parker) has been raised in a Spanish convent since she was an infant.
• Persistent themes include aging, delusional behavior, bad relationships, death, and the personification of inanimate objects.
• It is commonly available in powder or granular form and has many industrial and household uses, including as a pesticide, as a metal soldering flux, as a component of glass, enamel, and pottery glazes, for tanning of skins and hides, for artificial aging of wood, as a preservative against wood fungus, and as a pharmaceutic alkalizer.
• inadequate; fixed-line network characterized by aging, deteriorating equipment with fixed-line teledensity stuck at 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular telephone subscribership is increasing.
• It depicts the short life and death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives with her aging mother in the fictional Vere Street off Westminster Bridge Road (real) in Lambeth.
• The film stars Tatsuya Nakadai as Hidetora Ichimonji, an aging Sengoku-period warlord who decides to abdicate as ruler in favor of his three sons.
• In the early years of the 20th century, an aging ex-lawman, Steve Judd, is hired by a bank to transport gold from a high country mining camp to the town of Hornitos, California.
• The plot concerns an aging outlaw gang on the Mexico–United States border trying to adapt to the changing modern world of 1913.
• It is possible he is the aging King in the Manx tale Y Chadee and father of Eshyn and Ny-Eshyn oddly familiar sounding names of a Good son (Eshyn) and a Bad son (Ny-Eshyn) which parallel what is said about Nisien and Efnisien in the tale of Branwen ferch Llyr, whom the later are considered only uterine brothers of Bran Fendigaid ab Llyr.
• Cataracts are most commonly due to aging but may also occur due to trauma or radiation exposure, be present from birth, or occur following eye surgery for other problems.

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