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# duration

«duration» in Mova's school dictionary: **The length of time something lasts, from its start to its…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a duration, durations; also uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The length of time something lasts, from its start to its end. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duration/#m1)

2) for the duration: for the whole time something lasts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duration/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths time problems, the duration is the time between start and finish: a film from 3:00 to 4:30 has a duration of 1 hour 30 minutes. In music, a note's duration is how long it is held. Phrases: for the duration, short duration, the duration of the journey.

### examples

- The film has a duration of 90 minutes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duration/#x1)
- Stay in your seats for the duration of the flight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duration/#x2)
- Find the duration of a lesson that starts at 9:15 and ends at 10:00. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duration/#x3)
- The storm was of short duration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duration/#x4)
- In music, a minim has a longer duration than a crotchet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duration/#x5)
- The duration of the journey was three hours. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duration/#x6)
- The triumph of Achilles was not of long duration. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duration/#x7)

### note

Formal word for "how long". For maths: duration = end time minus start time. Remember 60 minutes in an hour, not 100, when subtracting times.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «duration» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/duration/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.