duration

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /djʊˈɹeɪʃn̩/, /dʒʊˈɹeɪʃn̩/
• (US) IPA^(key): /dəˈɹeɪʃn̩/, /djəˈɹeɪʃn̩/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

duration (countable and uncountable, plural durations)

1. 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.

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.

Translations

amount of time

• Arabic: مُدَّة‎ f (mudda)
• Asturian: duración f
• Azerbaijani: davam, müddət (az), sürək, sürək
• Bashkir: оҙайлыҡ (oðaylïq), дауамлылыҡ (dawamlïlïq)
• Bulgarian: продължителност (bg) f (prodǎlžitelnost), времетраене (bg) n (vremetraene)
• Catalan: durada (ca) f, duració 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)
• Middle English: stage
• Occitan: durada (oc) f
• 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
• Swedish: tidslängd c, varaktighet (sv) c
• Telugu: గడువు (te) (gaḍuvu)
• Turkish: süre (tr)

See also

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

Anagrams

• drain out

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Middle French

Etymology

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

Noun

duration f (plural durations)

1. duration (length with respect to time)