Usually means: Length of time something lasts.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. duration: Merriam-Webster
  2. duration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. duration: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. duration: Collins English Dictionary
  5. duration: Vocabulary.com
  6. Duration, duration: Wordnik
  7. duration: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. duration: Wiktionary
  9. duration: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. duration: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. duration: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. duration: Dictionary.com
  13. duration: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. duration: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Duration (Bergson), Duration (music), Duration (philosophy), Duration (project management), Duration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Duration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. duration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. duration: Rhymezone
  19. duration: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. duration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. duration: FreeDictionary.org
  22. duration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. duration: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. duration: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. duration: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Duration: bizterms.net
  5. Duration: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. Duration: Harvey Financial
  7. Duration: Investopedia
  8. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  9. duration: Legal dictionary
  10. Duration: Financial dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  12. Duration: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  13. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. duration: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. duration: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. duration: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. duration: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Squash Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Duration: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An amount of time or a particular time interval.
noun:  (in the singular, not followed by "of") The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war.
noun:  (finance) A measure of the sensitivity of the price of a financial asset to changes in interest rates, computed for a simple bond as a weighted average of the maturities of the interest and principal payments associated with it.

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