Definition of Durations

1. Noun. (plural of duration) ¹

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Definition of Durations

1. duration [n] - See also: duration

Lexicographical Neighbors of Durations

durancy
durangite
durangites
duranguense
durants
duranusite
durapatite
duraplasty
duras
duration
duration tetany
durational
durational pattern
durational patterns
durationally
durations
durative
durative aspect
duratives
durbar
durbari
durbaris
durbars
durdum
durdums
dure
dured
dureful
dureless
durene

Literary usage of Durations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1918)
"The durations we have practically most to deal with—minutes, hours, ... Hearing is the sense by which the subdivision of durations is most sharply made. ..."

2. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"LI ferences between their durations. Such distinctions inseparably implicated with modes of acquisition, or Titles. Before I proceed to the distinctions ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1900)
"Varieties of Earthquakes and their Respective Durations. Those who live in a country where earthquakes are frequent must have observed that the shocks they ..."

4. Denmark (2006)
"Expected tenancy durations for private rented housing Years Insider advantage degree deciles Standard household (SH) SH, single male without kids 1 12.8 7.1 ..."

5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1861)
"of light, one long nnd the other short, nnd by eclipses of three lengths or durations. He proposes to obtain the light either from a ..."

6. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1861)
"... one long and the other short, and by eclipses of three lengths or durations. He proposes to obtain the light either from a Bunsen battery of fifty ..."

7. Animal Mechanism: A Treatise on Terrestrial and Aerial Locomotion by Etienne-Jules Marey (1883)
"OF THE MOVEMENTS OF THE WING OF THE BIED DURING FLIGHT. Frequency of the movements of the wing—Relative durations of its rise and fall—Electrical ..."

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