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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishduracioun, from lateOld Frenchduracion, fromMedieval Latindūrātiō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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duration (countable anduncountable,pluraldurations)

  2. An amount oftime or a particular timeinterval.
    Theduration of the flight will be about 2 hours 45 minutes.
    She was moaning for the entireduration of the advert break.
    • 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, inRAIL, number970, page55:
      To make matters worse, we pass through a torrential rainstorm, which makes window-gazing almost impossible, leaving me glad that the trip is less than 30 minutesduration.
  3. (in the singular, not followed by "of") The time taken for the currentsituation to end, especially the currentwar.
    Rationing will last at least for theduration.
  4. (finance) A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a financial asset to changes in interest rates, computed for a simple bond as a weighted average of the maturities of the interest and principal payments associated with it.

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Translations

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amount of time

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Middle French

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Etymology

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From lateOld Frenchduracion, borrowed fromLatindūrātiō, dūrātiōnem.

Noun

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duration f (pluraldurations)

  1. duration (length with respect to time)
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