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Plural of duration

regular plural

The plural of duration is durations.

Forms of duration

Singularduration /dʒʊˈɹeɪ.ʃən/
Pluraldurations
Countablecountable 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

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

Full definition of duration

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.

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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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