Duration

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Duration \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.
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           It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should


           be limited.                              --Macaulay.
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           Soon shall have passed our own human duration. --D.
                                                    Webster.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  duration
       n 1: the period of time during which something continues [syn: {continuance}]
       2: the property of enduring or continuing in time [syn: {continuance}]
       3: continuance in time; "the ceremony was of short duration";
          "he complained about the length of time required" [syn: {length}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  70 Moby Thesaurus words for "duration":
     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,
     long-lastingness, long-livedness, longevity, 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