Meaning of DURATION
| Pronunciation: | | dû'reyshun
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- [n] continuance in time; "the ceremony was of short duration"; "he complained about the length of time required"
- [n] the property of enduring or continuing in time
- [n] the period of time during which something continues
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| | Synonyms: | | continuance, length |
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| | See Also: | | brevity, briefness, clocking, continuation, endlessness, impermanence, impermanency, lengthiness, longness, longueur, note value, period, period of time, permanence, permanency, prolongation, protraction, residence time, rule, shortness, span, stint, stretch, temporal property, time, time period, time scale, time value, transience, value | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Du*ra"tion\, n. [OF. duration. See {Dure}.]
The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the
portion of time during which anything exists.
It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should
be limited. --Macaulay.
Soon shall have passed our own human duration. --D.
Webster.
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| | Related Terms: | | abidingness, age, antiquity, changelessness, chronology, constancy, continuance, continuation, continuity, defeat of time, defiance of time, diuturnity, durability, durableness, duree, endurance, firmness, fixedness, frozenness, hardening, immobility, immovability, immovableness, immutability, invariability, invariableness, inveteracy, lastingness, long standing, longevity, long-lastingness, long-livedness, maintenance, perdurability, perennation, period, permanence, permanency, perpetualness, perpetuity, persistence, persistency, psychological time, quiescence, rigidity, run, solidity, space, space-time, span, spell, stability, standing, stasis, steadfastness, survival, survivance, tense, tenure, term, the future, the past, the present, tide, time, timebinding, torpor, unchangeability, unchangingness, while |
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