Plural of duration
regular plural
The plural of duration is durations.
Forms of duration
| Singular | duration /dʒʊˈɹeɪ.ʃən/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | durations |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Durations in a sentence
- Twelfth Night is replete with gullings, albeit of different degrees and durations.2003, Stanley Wells, Shakespeare Survey, volume 52, page 121. From the entry gulling
- The analyses indicate that MHE vowel durations correspond to NE durations for the dimoraic (long) vowels, but correspond to the Spanish‐accented vowels of L2E for the monomoraic (short) vowels.2009, K Konopka, “Vowel duration in Mexican heritage English”, in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, volume 125, page 2757. From the entry dimoraic
- But who should judge the judges? (other judges probably), should their judgements be appraised? (probably not) and should the durations of their summing-ups be measured? (also probably not).2005, Colin Fisher, “Performance management and performing management”, in John Leopold, Lynette Harris, Tony Watson, editors, The…. From the entry summing-up
Meaning of duration
- noun An amount of time or a particular time interval.
- noun The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war.
- noun 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.
Questions about the plural of duration
- What is the plural of duration?
- The plural of duration is durations.
- Is duration countable?
- Duration is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: duration (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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