pack-year

English

Alternative forms

• pack year

Noun

pack-year (plural pack-years)

1. (medicine, smoking) A unit for estimating the number of cigarettes a person has smoked previously; it is calculated by multiplying the average number of packs (each containing 20 cigarettes) the person smokes per day by the number of years the person has smoked.

Synonyms

• PY, py (initialisms)

Translations

unit for measuring the number of cigarettes a person has smoked previously

• French: paquet-année m
• German: Packungsjahr n
• Hungarian: csomagév, dobozév
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• Romanian: pachet-an n
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