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the gap between when something starts and when you stop pretending to care
means The length of time something lasts, from its beginning to its end.
from From Latin 'durare,' to last or endure, which also gave us 'durable' and 'endure' — all sharing the sense of something tough enough to hold out over time. The Latin root 'durus' meant 'hard,' so at heart, 'duration' is about how long a thing can stay hard against the wearing-down of the clock.
- physics quirk
- Moving clocks tick slower, so duration depends on speed
- prison term
- Many countries measure life sentences by exact duration
- music notation
- Note shapes alone encode every duration a player needs
- perceived time
- Novelty stretches duration; routine compresses years into seconds
- sound roots
- Latin durare means to harden, last, endure
for instance
beethoven's 9th symphony — 74 minutes long, premiere 1824
titanic film — 194 minutes, james cameron 1997
longest apnea record — 24 minutes 3 seconds, branko petrović 2021