duration

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from late Old French duracion, from Medieval Latin dūrātiō.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /djʊˈɹeɪʃn̩/
• IPA^(key): /dəˈɹeɪʃn̩/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

NounEdit

duration (countable and uncountable, 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.

TranslationsEdit

amount of time

• Arabic: مُدَّة‎‎ f (mudda)
• Asturian: duración f
• Bashkir: оҙайлыҡ (oðaylïq), дауамлылыҡ (dawamlïlïq)
• Bulgarian: продължителност (bg) f (prodǎlžitelnost), времетраене (bg) n (vremetraene)
• Catalan: durada (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: trvání (cs) n
• Dutch: tijdsduur (nl) m, duur (nl) m
• Finnish: aikaväli (fi), kesto (fi)
• French: durée (fr) f
• Galician: dura f, duración (gl) f
• Georgian: ხანგრძლივობა (xangrʒlivoba), ვადა (ka) (vada), დროის შუალედი (drois šualedi)
• German: Dauer (de) f

• Greek: διάρκεια (el) f (diárkeia)
• 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: ^{(please verify)} czas trwania m
• Portuguese: duração (pt) f
• Romanian: durată (ro) f
• Russian: продолжи́тельность (ru) f (prodolžítelʹnostʹ), дли́тельность (ru) f (dlítelʹnostʹ)
• Spanish: duración (es) f
• Telugu: గడువు (te) (gaḍuvu)
• Turkish: süre (tr)

See alsoEdit

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

AnagramsEdit

• drain out

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Middle FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From late Old French duracion, borrowed from Latin dūrātiō, dūrātiōnem.

NounEdit

duration f (plural durations)

1. duration (length with respect to time)