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duration
/dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
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What does duration mean?
noun
- An amount of time or a particular time interval.
- The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war.
- 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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But this detestation, though so just, was of short duration, for she looked again and exclaimed, “Delightful! mr. Morland and my brother!”
Thus the effect which the geographical position of a country may have upon the duration of democratic institutions is exaggerated in Europe.
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Thus from this point of view the modern method of carrying on war has a tendency to shorten the duration of wars.
It should seem that to be known, is in some sort to have a man’s life and its duration in others’ keeping.
Tulpius speaks of hemoptysis lasting chronically for thirty years, and there is a similar record of forty years' duration in the Ephemerides.