duration
/djʊˈreɪʃ(ə)n
/noun
The time during which something continues: bicycle hire for the duration of your holiday a flight of over eight hours' duration...
- While lengths and durations change, there is a particular mathematical combination of them that does not.
- The session may be defined in a number of ways, possibly in terms of a time duration or a number of uses.
- To obtain the total of the eight reign durations, the scribe would have used the tallying method.
Synonyms
full length, length of time, time, time span, time scale, period, term, span, spell, stretch, fullness, length, extent, continuation, continuance, perpetuation, prolongation
Phrases
for the duration
Derivatives
durational
- As soon as I started working with electronic musicians, circular breathing becomes a lot more useful because the durational sense can be really different.
- This software program records both discrete events and durational measurements and stores them for later analysis.
- At-risk infants may not be able to efficiently process sound patterns that differ only in durational features.
Origin
Late Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin duratio(n-), from durare 'to last', from durus 'hard'.