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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Continuance or persistence in time.
  2. n. A period of existence or persistence: sat quietly through the duration of the speech.
  3. n. The number of years required to receive the present value of future payments, both of interest and principle, of a bond, often used as an indicator of a bond's price volatility resulting from changes in interest rates.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Continuance in time; also, the length of time during which anything continues: as, the duration of life or of a partnership; the duration of a tone or note in music; the duration of an eclipse.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An amount of time or a particular time interval
  2. n. The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war
  3. n. 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.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. continuance in time
  2. n. the period of time during which something continues
  3. n. the property of enduring or continuing in time

Etymologies

  1. Middle English duracioun, from Old French duration, from Medieval Latin dūrātiō, dūrātiōn-, from Latin dūrātus, past participle of dūrāre, to last; see deuə- in Indo-European roots.

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