Duration vs Continuation - What's the difference?
duration | continuation | Synonyms |
An amount of time or a particular time interval.
The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war
(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.
The act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.
That which extends, increases, supplements, or carries on.
(computing) A representation of an execution state of a program at a certain point in time, which may be used at a later time to resume the execution of the program from that point.
(basketball) A successful shot that, despite a foul, is made with a single continuous motion beginning before the foul, and that is therefore valid in certain forms of basketball.
As nouns the difference between duration and continuation
is that duration is an amount of time or a particular time interval while continuation is the act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.duration
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Noun
(en noun)- Rationing will last at least for the duration .
See also
* * (Bond duration) *dictionary.reference.comentry
continuation
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Noun
(wikipedia continuation) (en noun)- the continuation of a story
- The series' continuation was commercially if not artistically successful.