Duration is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DURATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the portion of time during which anything exists
• the time during which something continues
• length of time that something lasts
• The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.
• the period of time during which something continues
• the property of enduring or continuing in time
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• continuance in time

Words related to DURATION

durational11 durations10 protension12

Words that contain DURATION

durations10 durational11 induration11 obduration13 indurations12 obdurations14 perduration14 perdurations15

How to use DURATION in a sentence

• It ought, moreover, to possess great firmness, and consequently ought to hold its authority by a tenure of considerable duration.
• With regard to the first, it must be evident, that the longer the duration in office, the greater will be the probability of obtaining so important an advantage.
• The joy of his father, however, was of short duration.
• A war of some duration followed with Elam, or Susiana, the flames of which at one time extended over almost the whole empire.
• These and other reasons lead to the conclusion, which has the support of Eusebius, that the Scythian domination was of much shorter duration than Herodotus imagined.
• The times, when the elevation began, and its duration are exact.
• Twilight is of short duration in the low latitudes, and the wish of the four white men was to be back in camp at the end of an hour, by which time night would be fairly upon them.
• But as usual the persecution was not of long duration.
• The duration of this period may vary from a few days to fifteen or twenty years.
• Probation is limited by no decree, only by the duration of free being.
• Should there be lacking the least element of pitch, strength, or duration, the tone is imperfect and does not meet the requirement.
• One may seem to live over periods of days and even years in a dream, the actual duration of which may be measured in minutes.
• His calculations stated the rate of loss to be L8,000 a month, and to arise from a false calculation of the duration of life in the tables given by Dr.
• Tennyson, for leave to bring in a bill to shorten the duration of parliaments.
• But this harmony was of short duration, and occasions of discord soon arose between these jealous and haughty princes.
• Pitch, accent, and duration of the sound throw much light on the subject of dialect, as a little analysis of Irish or Scotch will show.
• I find no limitation of time of service, but only of duration of appropriation.
• He foretold the duration of the siege of Troy, and, when the fleet was detained by adverse winds at Aulis, he explained the cause and demanded the sacrifice of Iphigeneia.
• The good or evil which these secondary writers produce is seldom of any long duration.
• Duration of Arts Course, Pass and Honours, 4 years.
• The respite which Stuart had gained for Virginia was not, however, of long duration.
• The short duration of the office is compensated by its authority.
• For the extent of the removal of the sulphur, the temperature and the duration of the reaction are of importance.
• Haddocking is quite an important industry off Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, during the winter, the sets being of rather short duration and made at the slack of the tide at high water.
• That act has calculated the probable duration of our quarrel with the colonies, and is accommodated to that supposed duration.
• For some minutes the giants wrestled together, but the combat proved to be of brief duration.
• With the composing-machine would come an atmosphere of order and cleanliness and activity, making work rapid and agreeable, and lessening the period of its duration.

Similar words containing DURA without suffix tion

dura5 dural6 duras6 durals7 durant7 bandura10 durable10 durably13 duramen10 durance10 durants8 pandura10 banduras11 durables11 duramens11 durances11 durative12 epidural11 indurate9 obduracy16 obdurate11 panduras11 subdural11 cascadura14 duralumin12 durations10 duratives13 endurable12 endurably15 endurance12 epidurals12 indurated11 indurates10 obdurated13 obdurates12 pandurate12 cascaduras15 durability16 duralumins13 durational11 endurances13 extradural18 indurating12 induration11 indurative14 nondurable13 obduracies15 obdurately16 obdurating14 obduration13 pandurated14 perdurable15 perdurably18 perdurance15 procedural15 durableness14 extradurals19 indurations12 nondurables14 obdurations14 perdurances16 perduration14 procedurals16 unendurable14 unendurably17 durabilities15 duraluminium17 endurability18 obdurateness15 perdurations15 procedurally20 unprocedural17 durablenesses16 duraluminiums18 endurableness16 perdurability21 nondurability19 endurabilities17 obduratenesses17 endurablenesses18 perdurabilities20 unendurableness18 nondurabilities18 unendurablenesses20

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