Durations

Only the older scope hands can still maintain a sense of the appropriate: over the watches of their Durations, jittering electric green for what must have seemed, at first, forever, they have come to understand distribution ... they have learned a visual mercy.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

Durations have all the reality that nature has, though what that may be we need not now determine.

The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904

Durations can have the two-termed relational property of extending one over the other.

The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead 1904

Their discussion of the minimum threshold reflects a more nuanced understanding of the needs of different people: "Durations of exercise less than 10 minutes may result in fitness and health benefits, particularly in sedentary individuals," they wrote.

The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ALEX HUTCHINSON 2011

Durations are given in milliseconds; higher values indicate slower animations, not faster ones. The 'fast' and 'slow' strings can be supplied to indicate durations of

LXer Linux News Jonathan Chaffer 2010

Synaptics Tap Durations (276): 180, 180, 100 Synaptics Tap FastTap (277): 0 Synaptics Middle Button Timeout (278): 75 Synaptics Two-Finger Pressure (279): 280 Synaptics Two-Finger Width

Ubuntu Forums Jarige 2010

Durations can be a little tricky when the solo has two turns.

Critical Hits 2010

Durations and lengths always appear after the note to which they apply, but the order doesn't matter.

MSDN Magazine: RSS Feed MSDN Magazine 2010

Durations are sticky-that is, if a duration does not follow a note, the last duration will be used.

MSDN Magazine: RSS Feed MSDN Magazine 2010

Durations are a much more useful, and more honest, metric when comparing performance changes in your applications.

The Rails Way - Home 2009