Noun

(en noun)

An incident or action standing out by itself, but more or less connected with a complete series of events.

:

* {{quote-book, year=1935, author=

, chapter=10/6, title= The Norwich Victims , passage=The Attorney-General, however, had used this episode , which Martin in retrospect had felt to be a blot on the scutcheon, merely to emphasise the intelligence and resource of the prisoner.}}

An installment of a drama told in parts, as in a TV series.

:

*{{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 20, author=Nathan Rabin

, title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992) , work=The Onion AV Club , passage=We all know how genius “Kamp Krusty,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” “Homer The Heretic,” “Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie” and “Mr. Plow” are, but even the relatively unheralded episodes offer wall-to-wall laughs and some of the smartest, darkest, and weirdest gags ever Trojan-horsed into a network cartoon with a massive family audience.}}

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.