duration

Meanings

Plural: durations

Noun

• the period of time during which something continues
• the property of enduring or continuing in time
• continuance in time
  • "the ceremony was of short duration"
• An amount of time or a particular time interval.
• The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war.
• 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.

Synonyms

continuance, length

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