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Durable vs Duration - What's the difference?

durable | duration |

Duration is a related term of durable.



As nouns the difference between durable and duration

is that durable is a durable good, one useful over more than one period, especially a year while duration is an amount of time or a particular time interval.

As an adjective durable

is able to resist wear, decay; lasting; enduring.

durable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Able to resist wear, decay; lasting; enduring.

    • Synonyms

    * permanent

    Antonyms

    * weak * vulnerable * transitory

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (economics) A durable good, one useful over more than one period, especially a year.
  • *

    • Antonyms

    * nondurable ----

    duration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An amount of time or a particular time interval.
  • The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war
    • Rationing will last at least for the duration .
  • (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.

    • See also

    * * (Bond duration) * dictionary.reference.com entry