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n. Continuance or persistence in time.

n. A period of existence or persistence: sat quietly through the duration of the speech.

n. The number of years required to receive the present value of future payments, both of interest and principle, of a bond, often used as an indicator of a bond's price volatility resulting from changes in interest rates.

n. An amount of time or a particular time interval

n. The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war

n. 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.

n. The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.

n. Continuance in time; also, the length of time during which anything continues: as, the duration of life or of a partnership; the duration of a tone or note in music; the duration of an eclipse.

n. continuance in time

n. the period of time during which something continues

n. the property of enduring or continuing in time

"You are getting a little bit higher rate as you go farther out on what we call the duration curve."

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