duration

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   continuance in time

   the ceremony was of short duration

2. 2
   noun

   An amount of time or a particular time interval.

   The duration of the flight will be about 2 hours 45 minutes.

3. 3
   noun

   The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war.

   Rationing will last at least for the duration.

4. 4
   noun

   the property of enduring or continuing in time

5. 5
   noun

   the period of time during which something continues

6. 6
   noun

   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.

Etymology

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