'Duration' definitions:
Definition of 'duration'
(from WordNet)
noun
The period of time during which something continues [syn: duration, continuance]
noun
The property of enduring or continuing in time [syn: duration, continuance]
noun
Continuance in time; "the ceremony was of short duration"; "he complained about the length of time required" [syn: duration, length]
Definition of 'Duration'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- Soon shall have passed our own human duration. --D. Webster. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'duration'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abidingness,
- age,
- antiquity,
- changelessness,
- chronology,
- constancy,
- continuance,
- continuation,
- continuity,
- defeat of time,
- defiance of time,
- diuturnity,
- durability,
- durableness,
- duree,
- endurance,
- firmness,
- fixedness,
- frozenness,
- hardening,
- immobility,
- immovability,
- immovableness,
- immutability,
- invariability,
- invariableness,
- inveteracy,
- lastingness,
- long standing,
- long-lastingness,
- long-livedness,
- longevity,
- maintenance,
- perdurability,
- perennation,
- period,
- permanence,
- permanency,
- perpetualness,
- perpetuity,
- persistence,
- persistency,
- psychological time,
- quiescence,
- rigidity,
- run,
- solidity,
- space,
- space-time,
- span,
- spell,
- stability,
- standing,
- stasis,
- steadfastness,
- survival,
- survivance,
- tense,
- tenure,
- term,
- the future,
- the past,
- the present,
- tide,
- time,
- timebinding,
- torpor,
- unchangeability,
- unchangingness,
- while