noun
- things that are not alive or do not have the characteristics of living organisms
Examples
- Scientists study the boundary between life and nonlife.
- Rocks and minerals are examples of nonlife.
- The research focused on how life emerged from nonlife billions of years ago.
- Viruses exist in a gray area between life and nonlife.
- The distinction between life and nonlife is fundamental to biology.
- Nonlife includes all inanimate objects in the universe.