duration

Contents

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From late Old French, from Medieval Latin dūrātiō.

PronunciationEdit

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

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

NounEdit

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 alsoEdit

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

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, duració f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: trvání n
• Dutch: tijdsduur (nl) m, duur (nl) m
• 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)

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Middle FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Latin dūrātiō.

NounEdit

duration f (plural durations)

1. duration (length with respect to time)