Definition of Duration. Meaning of Duration. Synonyms of Duration

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Definition of Duration

Duration
Duration Du*ra"tion, n. [OF. duration. See Dure.] The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists. It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited. --Macaulay. Soon shall have passed our own human duration. --D. Webster.

Meaning of Duration from wikipedia

- Look up duration in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Duration may refer to: The amount of time elapsed between two events Duration (finance) – the weighted...
- In finance, the duration of a financial ****et that consists of fixed cash flows, such as a bond, is the weighted average of the times until those fixed...
- Sunshine duration or sunshine hours is a climatological indicator, measuring duration of sunshine in given period (usually, a day or a year) for a given...
- The duration of a stock is the average of the times until its cash flows are received, weighted by their present values. The most po****r model of duration...
- In music, duration is an amount of time or how long or short a note, phrase, section, or composition lasts. "Duration is the length of time a pitch, or...
- A duration row or duration series is an ordering of a set of durations, in analogy with the tone row or twelve-tone set. Olivier Messiaen's "Mode de valeurs...
- Duration (French: la durée) is a theory of time and consciousness posited by the French philosopher Henri Bergson. Bergson sought to improve upon inadequacies...
- Duration neglect is the psychological observation that people's judgments of the unpleasantness of painful experiences depend very little on the duration...
- The following list ranks wars and times of war or conflict by their duration, including both historical and ongoing battles. List of wars extended by diplomatic...
- To Duration (German: Gedicht an die Dauer) is a long poem by the Austrian writer Peter Handke, published as a book by Suhrkamp Verlag in 1986. It is about...