duration

physical quantity for describing the temporal distance between events
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duration

Summary

duration is a kind of quantity[1].

Key Facts

  • duration's instance of is recorded as kind of quantity[2].
  • duration's instance of is recorded as ISQ base quantity[3].
  • duration is a type of physical quantity[4].
  • duration is a type of scalar quantity[5].
  • duration is a type of additive quantity[6].
  • duration is a type of temporal entity[7].
  • duration's said to be the same as is recorded as length[8].
  • duration's described by source is recorded as ISO 80000-3:2006 Quantities and units — Part 3: Space and time[9].
  • duration's described by source is recorded as ISO 80000-3:2019 Quantities and units — Part 3: Space and time[10].
  • duration's described by source is recorded as SI Brochure (9th edition): Concise summary[11].
  • duration's described by source is recorded as National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan[12].
  • duration's main Wikidata property is recorded as P2047[13].
  • duration's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/Duration[14].
  • duration's equivalent class is recorded as http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/duration[15].
  • duration's equivalent class is recorded as http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Work/runtime[16].
  • duration's equivalent class is recorded as http://purl.org/ontology/mo/duration[17].
  • duration's equivalent class is recorded as http://www.cidoc-crm.org/Entity/e52-time-span/version-6.2[18].
  • duration's equivalent class is recorded as http://www.w3.org/2006/time#Duration[19].
  • duration's different from is recorded as time[20].
  • duration's different from is recorded as time interval[21].
  • duration's exact match is recorded as https://schema.org/duration[22].
  • duration's recommended unit of measurement is recorded as second[23].
  • duration's recommended unit of measurement is recorded as minute[24].
  • duration's recommended unit of measurement is recorded as hour[25].
  • duration's recommended unit of measurement is recorded as day[26].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include kind of quantity[2] and ISQ base quantity[3]. Recorded subclass of include physical quantity[4], scalar quantity[5], additive quantity[6], and temporal entity[7].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . ISO 80000-1:2009 Quantities and units—Part 1: General. wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
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  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . ISO 80000-3:2006 Quantities and units — Part 3: Space and time. wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . ISO 80000-3:2006 Quantities and units — Part 3: Space and time. wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . ISO 80000-3:2006 Quantities and units — Part 3: Space and time. wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . ISO 80000-3:2006 Quantities and units — Part 3: Space and time. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wolfram language quantity id Time
    Instance of kind of quantity, ISQ base quantity
    Treccani's dizionario di filosofia id durata
    Equivalent class https://schema.org/Duration, http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/duration, http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Work/runtime +3
    + 29 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 5916, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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