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Definition of duration in English: durationnoun djʊˈreɪʃ(ə)nd(j)ʊrˈeɪʃ(ə)n The time during which something continues. 持续时间,期间;持续 bicycle hire for the duration of your holiday 假日期间的自行车出租。 a flight of over eight hours' duration 一次持续八个多小时的飞行。 Example sentencesExamples - The decision to decrease the duration of water supply by two hours in a day is a double whammy.
- To obtain the total of the eight reign durations, the scribe would have used the tallying method.
- Therefore, remaining interactions would be expected to be normal in terms of magnitudes and durations.
- The session may be defined in a number of ways, possibly in terms of a time duration or a number of uses.
- The time frame for our study was 4.7 years, the mean duration of patient follow up.
- The only time in the duration of the interview when she stopped smiling was when she almost burst into tears.
- Treatment durations and number of replications were the same as in the leaf shading experiment.
- The duration of incubation depended on the tissues under study and the stage of plant development.
- There were no significant differences in ages and durations among groups.
- The duration of the growth response was evaluated on elongation rate graphs.
- But there are countless solar systems, each has its own day with different durations between planets and solar systems.
- The signals will automatically respond to the jams and allocate the required time durations for clearing such traffic jams.
- A club is for life, not just for a season, nor a spell of success, nor the duration of a new fashionable strip.
- The intervals and durations of rhythm communicate timing, he adds, which influences firing patterns in the brain.
- Training programmes would be of different durations and selection would depend on the current skill level of the student.
- Everyday, they are bothered about six times for durations of 30 to 45 minutes.
- While lengths and durations change, there is a particular mathematical combination of them that does not.
- Call-centre workers often have strict targets on call durations, number of calls answered, etc.
- And several states that impose term limits allow much longer durations.
- Flight durations were within minutes of each other, by the way, and the food is probably equally bad on all the flights.
Synonyms full length, length of time, time, time span, time scale, period, term, span, spell, stretch, fullness, length, extent, continuation, continuance, perpetuation, prolongation
Phrases1Until the end of something, especially a war. 直到(…的)结束(尤指直至战争结束) Example sentencesExamples - This process was repeated for the remaining data until a value of zero remained for the duration of the experimental period.
- They receive only travelling expenses plus board and lodging for the duration of the session.
- Highways chiefs expect to keep both lanes open for the duration of the project which is scheduled to last until December this year.
- Wherever the sensation has struck, it has remained for the duration of my stay, and returned on repeat visits.
- However, the footpath through Scotchell would be closed for the duration of the work.
- He trained for and entered the Royal Navy for the duration of the First World War.
- As part of this tribute the committee are looking for memorabilia which can be put on show for the duration of the exhibition.
- The 10 trains an hour scheduled to pass through Swindon had to be re-routed for the duration of the alert.
- Neither side could find a way through for the duration of the game in front of 63,000 spectators.
- Many students find themselves sleeping on old camp bed-style mattress for the duration of their stay.
- 1.1informal For a very long time.
〈非正式〉长期地 once she sits down on that settee, she'll be there for the duration Example sentencesExamples - There are many of us in total and we are here for the duration.
- Having been one of the last in I managed to be one of the first out, but as I looked behind me it appeared as if many of the mobsters were there for the duration.
- Then she's held down protectively by her friend for the duration.
- One of the aforementioned New York Friends offered to put me up in his new house for the duration.
- The best thing about spending the next few weeks behind bars is that if you're banged up you actually lose the right to vote for the duration.
- The Marquess of Queensbury rules are put on hold for the duration.
Synonyms all through, through, for the duration, for the duration of, for the whole of, until the end, until the end of, the whole time, all the time
Derivativesadjective This durational distribution characterizes that key and only that key. Example sentencesExamples - As soon as I started working with electronic musicians, circular breathing becomes a lot more useful because the durational sense can be really different.
- This software program records both discrete events and durational measurements and stores them for later analysis.
- These durational variations make the internal states of the protagonists palpable.
- At-risk infants may not be able to efficiently process sound patterns that differ only in durational features.
OriginLate Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin duratio(n-), from durare 'to last', from durus 'hard'. Rhymesablation, aeration, agnation, Alsatian, Amerasian, Asian, aviation, cetacean, citation, conation, creation, Croatian, counterdemonstration, counterproliferation, crustacean, curation, Dalmatian, delation, dilation, donation, elation, fixation, Galatian, geolocation, glocalization, gyration, Haitian, halation, Horatian, ideation, illation, lavation, legation, libation, location, lunation, mutation, natation, nation, negation, notation, nutation, oblation, oration, ovation, potation, relation, rogation, rotation, Sarmatian, sedation, Serbo-Croatian, station, staycation, taxation, Thracian, vacation, vexation, vocation, zonation Definition of duration in US English: durationnound(y)o͝orˈāSH(ə)nd(j)ʊrˈeɪʃ(ə)n The time during which something continues. 持续时间,期间;持续 a flight of over eight hours' duration 一次持续八个多小时的飞行。 the subway stop has been closed for the duration of the convention Example sentencesExamples - The duration of the growth response was evaluated on elongation rate graphs.
- The signals will automatically respond to the jams and allocate the required time durations for clearing such traffic jams.
- There were no significant differences in ages and durations among groups.
- Call-centre workers often have strict targets on call durations, number of calls answered, etc.
- The only time in the duration of the interview when she stopped smiling was when she almost burst into tears.
- Treatment durations and number of replications were the same as in the leaf shading experiment.
- Everyday, they are bothered about six times for durations of 30 to 45 minutes.
- Training programmes would be of different durations and selection would depend on the current skill level of the student.
- The duration of incubation depended on the tissues under study and the stage of plant development.
- Therefore, remaining interactions would be expected to be normal in terms of magnitudes and durations.
- But there are countless solar systems, each has its own day with different durations between planets and solar systems.
- A club is for life, not just for a season, nor a spell of success, nor the duration of a new fashionable strip.
- The intervals and durations of rhythm communicate timing, he adds, which influences firing patterns in the brain.
- The time frame for our study was 4.7 years, the mean duration of patient follow up.
- Flight durations were within minutes of each other, by the way, and the food is probably equally bad on all the flights.
- The decision to decrease the duration of water supply by two hours in a day is a double whammy.
- And several states that impose term limits allow much longer durations.
- The session may be defined in a number of ways, possibly in terms of a time duration or a number of uses.
- To obtain the total of the eight reign durations, the scribe would have used the tallying method.
- While lengths and durations change, there is a particular mathematical combination of them that does not.
Synonyms full length, length of time, time, time span, time scale, period, term, span, spell, stretch, fullness, length, extent, continuation, continuance, perpetuation, prolongation
Phrases1Until the end of something, especially a war. 直到(…的)结束(尤指直至战争结束) he was in the navy for the duration plus six Example sentencesExamples - However, the footpath through Scotchell would be closed for the duration of the work.
- He trained for and entered the Royal Navy for the duration of the First World War.
- Highways chiefs expect to keep both lanes open for the duration of the project which is scheduled to last until December this year.
- The 10 trains an hour scheduled to pass through Swindon had to be re-routed for the duration of the alert.
- Wherever the sensation has struck, it has remained for the duration of my stay, and returned on repeat visits.
- Neither side could find a way through for the duration of the game in front of 63,000 spectators.
- They receive only travelling expenses plus board and lodging for the duration of the session.
- As part of this tribute the committee are looking for memorabilia which can be put on show for the duration of the exhibition.
- Many students find themselves sleeping on old camp bed-style mattress for the duration of their stay.
- This process was repeated for the remaining data until a value of zero remained for the duration of the experimental period.
- 1.1informal For a very long time.
〈非正式〉长期地 some stains may be there for the duration 一些污迹有可能长期无法去除。 Example sentencesExamples - The best thing about spending the next few weeks behind bars is that if you're banged up you actually lose the right to vote for the duration.
- The Marquess of Queensbury rules are put on hold for the duration.
- One of the aforementioned New York Friends offered to put me up in his new house for the duration.
- There are many of us in total and we are here for the duration.
- Then she's held down protectively by her friend for the duration.
- Having been one of the last in I managed to be one of the first out, but as I looked behind me it appeared as if many of the mobsters were there for the duration.
Synonyms all through, through, for the duration, for the duration of, for the whole of, until the end, until the end of, the whole time, all the time
OriginLate Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin duratio(n-), from durare ‘to last’, from durus ‘hard’. |