| NOUN | time | duration, continuance | the period of time during which something continues |
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| time | duration, continuance | the property of enduring or continuing in time | |
| attribute | duration, length | continuance in time |
| Sounds | duh'rey'shahn | |
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| Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... | |
| Meaning | The period of time during which something continues. | |
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| Synonym | continuance | |
| Narrower | clocking | The time taken to traverse a measured course |
| longueur | A period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art) | |
| residence time | The period of time spent in a particular place | |
| rule | The duration of a monarch's or government's power | |
| span | The complete duration of something | |
| stretch, stint | An unbroken period of time during which you do something | |
| time scale | An arrangement of events used as a measure of duration | |
| value, time value, note value | (music) the relative duration of a musical note | |
| Broader | time period, period of time, period | An amount of time |
| Spanish | continuación, continuidad, duración, permanencia, persistencia | |
| Catalan | continuïtat, duració, permanència, persistència | |
| Meaning | The property of enduring or continuing in time. | |
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| Synonym | continuance | |
| Broader | time | The continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past |
| Spanish | continuidad, duración, permanencia, persistencia | |
| Catalan | continuïtat, duració, durada, permanència | |
| Meaning | continuance in time. | |
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| Example | "the ceremony was of short duration" | |
| Synonym | length | |
| Attributes | long | primarily temporal sense |
| short | primarily temporal sense | |
| Narrower | brevity, briefness, transience | The attribute of being brief or fleeting |
| endlessness | The property of being (or seeming to be) without end | |
| impermanence, impermanency | The property of not existing for indefinitely long durations | |
| lengthiness, prolongation, continuation, protraction | The consequence of being lengthened in duration | |
| longness | duration as an extension | |
| permanence, permanency | The property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration | |
| shortness | The property of being of short temporal extent | |
| Broader | temporal property | A property relating to time |
| Spanish | duración | |
| Catalan | duració, durada | |
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