Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)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.

    Dauer

    продолжи́тельностьprodolžítelʹnostʹ, дли́тельностьdlítelʹnostʹ

    трива́лістьtryválistʹ

    continuance in time

  2. (countable, singular, uncountable)The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war.

    Rationing will last at least for the duration.

  3. (countable, uncountable)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.

Examples

24 sentences
  1. Can you sit through the duration?

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  2. The trip duration is two hours.

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  3. Gradually increase the duration of your workouts.

    ruПостепенно увеличивайте продолжительность ваших тренировок.

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  4. The duration of a football match is 90 minutes.

    ruПродолжительность футбольного матча - 90 минут.

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  5. The duration of the tennis match was five hours.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
amount of time:
Русский
By meaning 1
amount of time:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
amount of time:

Origin

From Middle English duracioun, from late Old French duracion, from Medieval Latin dūrātiō.

From Middle English duracioun, from late Old French duracion, from Medieval Latin dūrātiō.

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Forms

plural: durations
Singularduration
Pluraldurations

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • continuance in time:length
  • the property of enduring or continuing in time:continuance
  • the period of time during which something continues:continuance

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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