On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Zefram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On the contrary: it's a period, we don't know its duration. > > Semantics. American Heritage Dictionary: > > duration, n. 2. A period of existence or persistence: sat quietly > through the duration of the speech.
Other dictionaries do have definitions like "the length of time something continues or exists". But they seem to offer these two varieties of definition interchangeably.. -root
