The amount of time that something continues or lasts.
From Latin 'duratio' meaning 'a lasting', from 'durare' meaning 'to last'. It entered English through French, keeping the idea of how long something endures.
Duration is the 'story of how long' something sticks around. It’s a time twin of 'distance'—one measures how far in space, the other how far in time.
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