duration.
An amount of time or a particular time interval.
Meaning & usage
An amount of time or a particular time interval.
The duration of the flight will be about 2 hours 45 minutes.
She was moaning for the entire duration of the advert break.
The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war.
Rationing will last at least for the duration.
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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English duracioun, from late Old French duracion, from Medieval Latin dūrātiō.
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