duration

Noun
  1. The period of time during which something continues (synset 115158573)
    is a type of: period, period of time, time period - an amount of time
    subtypes:
    • clocking - the time taken to traverse a measured course
    • longueur - a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art)
    • residence time - the period of time spent in a particular place
    • span - the complete duration of something
    • stint, stretch - an unbroken period of time during which you do something
    • time scale - an arrangement of events used as a measure of duration
    • note value, time value, value - (music) the relative duration of a musical note
    • rule - the duration of a monarch's or government's power
    same as: continuance
  2. The property of enduring or continuing in time (synset 115158440)
    is a type of: time - the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
    same as: continuance
  3. Continuance in time (synset 105058400)
    "the ceremony was of short duration"; "he complained about the length of time required"
    tells us about:
    • long - primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
    • short - primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
    is a type of: temporal property - a property relating to time
    subtypes:
    same as: length

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