DURATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does duration mean? 

• DURATION (noun)
  The noun DURATION has 3 senses:

1. the period of time during which something continues

2. the property of enduring or continuing in time

3. continuance in time

  Familiarity information: DURATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DURATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The period of time during which something continues

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

continuance; duration

Hypernyms ("duration" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "duration"):

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The property of enduring or continuing in time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

continuance; duration

Hypernyms ("duration" is a kind of...):

time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Continuance in time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

duration; length

Context example:

he complained about the length of time required

Hypernyms ("duration" is a kind of...):

temporal property (a property relating to time)

Attribute:

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "duration"):

longness (duration as an extension)

continuation; lengthiness; prolongation; protraction (the consequence of being lengthened in duration)

endlessness (the property of being (or seeming to be) without end)

shortness (the property of being of short temporal extent)

brevity; briefness; transience (the attribute of being brief or fleeting)

permanence; permanency (the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration)

impermanence; impermanency (the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations)

 Context examples 

Compared to other local anesthetics, this agent has a more rapid onset and moderate duration of action.

(Mepivacaine, NCI Thesaurus)

The minimum duration (time) of the JT interval, obtained from a set of measurements of the JT interval.

(Minimum JT Duration, NCI Thesaurus)

Prolonged use may lead to dependence of the morphine type; withdrawal symptoms appear more rapidly than with morphine and are of shorter duration.

(Meperidine hydrochloride, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

These results are substantially better than those in older children who had a longer duration of peanut allergy.

(Preschoolers benefit from peanut allergy therapy, NIH)

Inhibition of acetylcholinesterase results in an increase in the level and duration of action of acetylcholine.

(Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitor, NCI Thesaurus)

Overall, exposure to extreme heat for the duration of pregnancy was associated with increases in risk for delivery at 34 weeks and 36-38 weeks by 6 to 21 percent.

(Extreme temperatures could increase preterm birth risk, NIH)

The minimum duration (time) of the PR interval, obtained from a set of measurements of the PR interval.

(Minimum PR Duration, NCI Thesaurus)

The minimum duration (time) of the QT interval, obtained from a set of measurements of the QT interval.

(Minimum QT Duration, NCI Thesaurus)

All foods and calorie-containing drinks were provided to participants for the duration of each five-week period on the test diets.

(Low-glycemic diets may not improve cardiovascular outcomes when compared to high-glycemic diets, NIH)

Nateglinide, compared to repaglitinide, binds with a higher affinity to the SUR1 subunit and with a faster onset of action and a shorter duration of action.

(Nateglinide, NCI Thesaurus)