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Webster 1913 Edition
Duration
Du-ra′tion
,Noun.
[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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Duration
DURATION
,Noun.
1.
Continuance in time; length or extension of existence, indefinitely; as the duration of life; the duration of a partnership; the duration of any given period of time; everlasting duration. This holding on or continuance of time is divided by us arbitrarily into certain portions, as minutes, hours and days; or it is measured by a succession of events, as by the diurnal and annual revolutions of the earth, or any other succession; and the interval between two events is called a part of duration. This interval may be of any indefinite length, a minute or a century.2.
Power of continuance.