What is the difference between duration and length?
duration | length |
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 distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
duration
* Robert Frost
(horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
(mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
(cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
(figuratively) Total extent.
Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
(obsolete) To lengthen.
* 1599 , , XIV. 30:
As nouns the difference between duration and length
is that duration is an amount of time or a particular time interval while length is the distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.As a verb length is
to lengthen.duration
English
Noun
(en noun)- Rationing will last at least for the duration .
See also
* * (Bond duration) *dictionary.reference.comentry
length
English
Noun
(en noun)- Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length .
- the length of a book
- a length of rope
Derived terms
* arm's length * at length * cable length * feature-length * floor-length * focal length * full-length * good length * go to great lengths * half-length * knee-length * lengthen * lengthful * length overall * lengthways * lengthwise * lengthy * line and length * null patch length * overlength * path length * screening length * short of a length * wavelength * zero-length launchingVerb
(en verb)- Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow: / Short night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow.