duration
An amount of time or a particular time interval.
Other meanings
The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war.
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.
Related words
- durational
- durationless
- durative
Word history
From Medieval Latin "dūrātiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “duration” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.