Hypertext Webster Gateway: "duration"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

duration
n 1: the period of time during which something continues [syn: {continuance}]
2: the property of enduring or continuing in time [syn: {continuance}]
3: continuance in time; "the ceremony was of short duration";
"he complained about the length of time required" [syn: {length}]


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