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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French duration, from Medieval Latin durationem (nominative duratio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin durare "harden" (see endure). Old legalese phrase for the duration popularized 1916 in reference to British enlistments in World War I.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An amount of time or a particular time interval. 2 (context in the singular, not followed by "of" English) The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war 3 (context finance English) 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.
WordNet
n. the period of time during which something continues [syn: continuance]
the property of enduring or continuing in time [syn: continuance]
continuance in time; "the ceremony was of short duration"; "he complained about the length of time required" [syn: length]
Wikipedia
In music duration is an amount of time or a particular time interval: how long or short a note, phrase, section, or composition lasts. A note may last less than a second, while a symphony may last more than an hour. One of the fundamental features of rhythm, or encompassing rhythm, duration is also central to meter and musical form.
The concept of duration can be further broken down into those of beat and meter, where beat is seen as (usually, but certainly not always) a 'constant', and rhythm being longer, shorter or the same length as the beat. Pitch may even be considered a part of duration. In serial music the beginning of a note may be considered, or its duration may be (for example, is a 6 the note which begins at the sixth beat, or which lasts six beats?).
Durations, and their beginnings and endings, may be described as long, short, or taking a specific amount of time. Often duration is described according to terms borrowed from descriptions of pitch. As such, the duration complement is the amount of different durations used, the duration scale is an ordering ( scale) of those durations from shortest to longest, the duration range is the difference in length between the shortest and longest, and the duration hierarchy is an ordering of those durations based on frequency of use.
Durational patterns are the foreground details projected against a background metric structure, which includes meter, tempo, and all rhythmic aspects which produce temporal regularity or structure. Duration patterns may be divided into rhythmic units and rhythmic gestures (Winold, 1975, chap. 3). However, they may also be described using terms borrowed from the metrical feet of poetry: iamb (weak-strong), anapest (weak-weak-strong), trochee (strong-weak), dactyl (strong-weak-weak), and amphibrach (weak-strong-weak), which may overlap to explain ambiguity.
Duration of a project's terminal element is the number of calendar periods it takes from the time the execution of element starts to the moment it is completed.
Duration should not be confused with work. E.g. it takes three days for a snail-mail letter to arrive at point B from point A, whereas the work put into mailing it may be 0.5 hours.
Strictly speaking, the phrase Duration of terminal element X is 5 days is incomplete. It fails to specify the following:
- the probability with which the completion is expected in the time allotted (since any estimate is only a prediction about the uncertain future, see critical chain)
- the resources to be used (sometimes using more resources or different resources speeds things up)
- the assumptions which were made
- the author of the estimation
- the date the estimate was made
- the work schedule of the resources
- etc.
So the improved statement could read:
I, Marek Kowalczyk, as of 27 March 2005 strongly believe that if I fully applied myself to competing terminal element X and worked 8 hours a day every day, including holidays, and had all the materials at hand, then I would have completed it in 5 calendar days.' See metamodeling.It may seem unwieldy to use such complicated statements, but lack of detail often leads to misunderstanding.
Duration may refer to:
- The amount of elapsed time between two events
- Duration (music) – an amount of time or a particular time interval, often cited as one of the fundamental aspects of music
- Duration (philosophy) – a theory of time and consciousness first proposed by Henri Bergson
- Duration (project management) – the number of calendar periods for the completion of a project in project management
- Bond duration – the average time until all the cash flows from a bond are delivered.
Duration (French: la durée) is a theory of time and consciousness posited by the French philosopher Henri Bergson. Bergson sought to improve upon inadequacies he perceived in the philosophy of Herbert Spencer, due, he believed, to Spencer's lack of comprehension of mechanics, which led Bergson to the conclusion that time eluded mathematics and science. Bergson became aware that the moment one attempted to measure a moment, it would be gone: one measures an immobile, complete line, whereas time is mobile and incomplete. For the individual, time may speed up or slow down, whereas, for science, it would remain the same. Hence Bergson decided to explore the inner life of man, which is a kind of duration, neither a unity nor a quantitative multiplicity. Duration is ineffable and can only be shown indirectly through images that can never reveal a complete picture. It can only be grasped through a simple intuition of the imagination.
Bergson first introduced his notion of duration in his essay Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness. It is used as a defense of free will in a response to Immanuel Kant, who believed free will was only possible outside of time and space.
Usage examples of "duration".
The duration of the siege has done nothing to abate the groundswell of support for Abies in and around this tiny Northwestern hamlet.
It was a compound of actinium, a substance far more radioactive than radium, but of lesser duration.
I went down and saw that their fines were paid, and pledged to the stationer adjudicator that they would be confined to quarters for the duration of our stay.
With the two simple elements of darkness and fire, we create a sensation of pain, which may be aggravated to an infinite degree by the idea of endless duration.
I have this regrettable circumstance to thank for those which befell me at the end of the duration, when the argosy eventually came to dock in Sarribad.
Mining quit, too, and the Aureole Mine was purposely buried for the duration of the war.
He also loosened the rules governing authorization for investigations and their duration.
No matter, the Poet said, a White Hun who falls asleep for the duration of a Benedicite or who starts flapping his arms is already a dead Hun.
The signals coming in from the biochip showed no clear pattern in terms of intensity or duration.
In this case the part may be cogredient with another duration which is part of the given duration, though it is not cogredient with the given duration itself.
For example, the tunnel of a tube railway is an event at rest in a certain time-system, that is to say, it is cogredient with a certain duration.
The stream of events which form the continuous series of situations of the electron is entirely self-determined, both as regards having the intrinsic character of being the series of situations of that electron and as regards the time-systems with which its various members are cogredient, and the flux of their positions in their corresponding durations.
To sum up, a duration and a percipient event are essentially involved in the general character of each observation of nature, and the percipient event is cogredient with the duration.
There is not only a significance of the discerned events embracing the whole present duration, but there is a significance of a cogredient event involving its extension through a whole time-system backwards and forwards.
Camilla what belonged to pleasantry in this business was of short duration, When the cotillon was over, she saw nothing of Edgar.