durations
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- 1Plural of duration.
The study recorded sleep durations for hundreds of participants.
Treatment durations varied widely from one patient to the next.
Note
The plural only works where duration can be counted: separate intervals that can be listed, measured and compared, like sleep durations or treatment durations. When the word means time in general, it stays singular and uncountable. Finance uses the countable sense too. Each bond has its own duration, a weighted average of its payment maturities, so the durations of several bonds can be set side by side.
durations is a form of duration
duration, noun: A length of time, or a particular interval during which something continues. Full entry
- Forms
- durationdurations plural
- Spelling
- duration → durations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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