duration

English

Etymology

From dictionary.reference.com: 1350–1400; ME, from ML dūrātiōn- (s. of dūrātiō), equiv. to L dūrāt(us) (ptp. of dūrāre to last; see dure 2 ) + -iōn- -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA: /djuːˈɹeɪʃn̩/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

duration (plural durations)

1. An amount of time or a particular time interval
2. (in the singular, not followed by "of") The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war

   Rationing will last at least for the duration.

3. (finance) 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.

See also

• Duration (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Duration (disambiguation)
• Bond duration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Bond duration
• dictionary.reference.com entry

Translations

amount of time

• Arabic: مدة (ar) (mudda) f
• Asturian: duración (ast) f
• Bulgarian: продължителност (bg) f (prodǎlžitelnost), времетраене (bg) n (vremetraene)
• Catalan: durada (ca) f, duració (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 時間 (cmn), 时间 (cmn) (shíjiān), 長短 (cmn), 长短 (cmn) (chángduǎn), 為期 (cmn), 为期 (cmn) (wéiqī), 期間 (cmn), 期间 (cmn) (qījiān)

• Czech: trvání (cs) n
• Dutch: tijdsduur (nl) m
• French: durée (fr) f
• Galician: dura (gl) f, duración (gl) f
• German: Dauer (de) f

• Greek: διάρκεια (el) (diárkeia) f 
• Hebrew: משך (he) (meshekh)
• Hungarian: időtartam (hu)
• Italian: durata (it) f
• Japanese: 期間 (ja) (きかん, kikan), 存続 (ja) (そんぞく, sonzoku)
• Persian: مدت (fa) (moddat)
• Polish: czas trwania m
• Portuguese: duração (pt) f
• Russian: продолжительность (ru) (prodolžítel'nost') f , длительность (ru) (dlítel'nost') f 
• Spanish: duración (es) f
• Telugu: గడువు (gaDuvu)