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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

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 undergoes, from initial creation to deployment and execution

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
• Lifecycle (album), a 2008 album by Yellowjackets

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
• 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)