duration
/dʒʊˈɹeɪ.ʃən//dəˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
duration noun: an amount of time or a particular time interval.
Noun
duration (countable and uncountable, plural durations)
- 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.
- The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war.
- Rationing will last at least for the duration.
- 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.
duration meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
duration in Hindi
- duration, period
- दौरान daurān
- duration or period of life
- आयु āyu
duration in Tamil
- கால அளவு, கால நீட்சி, கால வரையறை, இடைப்பட்ட காலம், கால இடைவெளி, காலவளவு
duration in Urdu
- amount of time
- دَورانِیَہ daurāniya
duration in Bengali
- duration
- সময়কাল śomẏkal
More languagesFewer languages
- duration in Telugu
- గడువు gaḍuvu
- duration in Malayalam
- തുടർച്ച, കാലദൈർഘ്യം, കാലയളവ്
- duration in Kannada
- ಅವಧಿ avadhi
- duration in Punjabi
- ویلا velā
- duration in Gujarati
- સમય samay
- duration in Sanskrit
- समवाय samavāya
- duration in Arabic
- مُدَّة mudda
- duration in Malay
- masa, tempoh, durasi, jangka masa
- duration in Persian
- مدت moddat, درازنای derâznây
Examples of duration in a sentence
- an intermission of 15 minutes' duration
- To make matters worse, we pass through a torrential rainstorm, which makes window-gazing almost impossible, leaving me glad that the trip is less than 30 minutes duration.2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55:
Forms of duration
| plural | durations |
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Origin of duration
From Middle English duracioun, from late Old French duracion, from Medieval Latin dūrātiō.
Words formed from duration
Words that rhyme with duration
- station
- collation
- accommodation
- presentation
- derivation
- information
- modulation
- translation
- application
- fixation
- generation
- orientation
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- citation
- combination
- communication
- conjugation
- constellation
- determination
- elevation
- operation
- relation
- reservation
- alternation
- condensation
- conversation
- deviation
- excavation
- foliation
- formation
- foundation
- incarnation
- interpretation
- representation
- retardation
- speculation
- termination
- abbreviation
- adaptation
- articulation
- bifurcation
- concentration
- congregation
- declination
- degradation
- expectation
- extenuation
- gradation
- observation
- population
- preparation
- reconciliation
- rotation
- separation
- situation
- vexation
- vindication
- accumulation
- administration
- aggregation
- appropriation
Questions about duration
- What does duration mean?
- Duration means an amount of time or a particular time interval.
- What is duration in Hindi?
- Duration in Hindi is दौरान (daurān), आयु (āyu). See Duration meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use duration in a sentence?
- an intermission of 15 minutes' duration
- What part of speech is duration?
- Duration is a noun.
- How do you pronounce duration?
- Duration is pronounced /dʒʊˈɹeɪ.ʃən/.
- What is the plural of duration?
- The plural of duration is durations.
Words near duration in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: duration (page history and authors); आयु (Hindi) (page history and authors); duration (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); সময়কাল (Bengali) (page history and authors); duration (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಅವಧಿ (Kannada) (page history and authors); ویلا (Punjabi) (page history and authors); સમય (Gujarati) (page history and authors); समवाय (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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