What is "durations"

Usage examples of "durations".

The durations between individual blips varied, indicating they were manually tapping out the signal.

But the spread of disposability through the society also implies decreased durations in man-thing relationships.

As discussed, a stationary light clock and its attached Rolex measure identical time durations, with a billion ticks on the light clock occurring for every one second of elapsed time on the Rolex.

Ever increasing precision of energy measurements require ever longer durations to carry them out.

The tendency toward shorter relational durations is thus built more deeply into the social structure than arguments over planned obsolescence or the manipulative effectiveness of Madison Avenue would suggest.

But they have made no systematic effort to relate the shorter duration of human ties to shorter durations in other kinds of relationships.

However, if to this picture of declining durations we add the factor of diversity--the recognition that each new human relationship requires a different pattern of behavior from us--one thing becomes starkly clear: to be able to make these increasingly numerous and rapid on-off clicks in our interpersonal lives we must be able to operate at a level of adaptability never before asked of human beings.

Apparently there has been an administrative mix-up over the dates and durations of some of the postings, and we'd like to get it straightened out.

He said it involved the durations of some of the postings in England, and asked me to be there at ten o'clock with Enriko, and to make sure we had our passports.

For him, time became little more than sequence, its durations known but muted.

But it was a distinctive sound in itself, and it was made up of short whines and longer ones of two durations only.

However, the temptingness of different durations is equally necessary for an estimate of the probability of a given person performing a given action.

They had distinctive pitch, which varied from one to another, and they were of different durations like half-notes and quarter-notes in music.