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duration

noun
/dʒʊˈɹeɪ.ʃən//dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/CA

Etymology

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

  1. derived from dūrātiō
  2. derived from duracion
  3. inherited from duracioun

Definitions

  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.
    • an intermission of 15 minutes' duration

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

    • Rationing will last at least for the duration.

  3. A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a financial asset to changes in interest…

    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.

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Derived

durational, durationless, durative

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at duration. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at duration. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at duration

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA