different between duration vs aedileship

English

Etymology

From Middle English duracioun, from late Old French duracion, from Medieval Latin d?r?ti?.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dj???e??n?/, /d????e??n?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /d???e??n?/, /dj???e??n?/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

duration (countable and uncountable, plural durations)

1. An amount of time or a particular time interval.

2. (in the singular, not followed by "of") The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war

3. (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.

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See also

• Duration (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bond duration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• dictionary.reference.com entry

Anagrams

• drain out

Middle French

Etymology

From late Old French duracion, borrowed from Latin d?r?ti?, d?r?ti?nem.

Noun

duration f (plural durations)

1. duration (length with respect to time)

English

Alternative forms

• ædileship (rare)

Etymology

aedile +? -ship

Noun

aedileship (plural aedileships)

1. (historical) The office of an aedile.
2. (historical) The period or duration of this office.
   • 1845, Thomas Arnold, From the Gaulish invasion to the end of the First Punic War

     Two brothers of this name were, as we have seen, the authors of the law which threw open the offices of augur and pontifex to the commons, and afterwards in their aedileship they ornamented the city with several works of art

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