Duration vs. Frequency — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Duration and Frequency
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Duration
Continuance or persistence in time.
Frequency
Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time. It is also occasionally referred to as temporal frequency to emphasize the contrast to spatial frequency, and ordinary frequency to emphasize the contrast to angular frequency.
Duration
A period of existence or persistence
Sat quietly through the duration of the speech.
Frequency
The rate at which something occurs over a particular period of time or in a given sample
An increase in the frequency of accidents due to increased overtime
Duration
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.
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Frequency
The rate per second of a vibration constituting a wave, either in a material (as in sound waves), or in an electromagnetic field (as in radio waves and light)
Different thicknesses of glass will absorb different frequencies of sound
Duration
An amount of time or a particular time interval.
The duration of the flight will be about 2 hours 45 minutes.
She was moaning for the entire duration of the advert break.
Frequency
The property or condition of occurring at frequent intervals.
Duration
(in the singular, not followed by "of") The time taken for the current situation to end, especially the current war
Rationing will last at least for the duration.
Frequency
The number of repetitions of a complete sequence of values of a periodic function per unit variation of an independent variable.
Duration
(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.
Frequency
The number of complete cycles of a periodic process occurring per unit time.
Duration
The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.
It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited.
Soon shall have passed our own human duration.
Frequency
The number of repetitions per unit time of a complete waveform, as of an electric current.
Duration
The period of time during which something continues
Frequency
The number of measurements or observations having a certain value or characteristic.
Duration
The property of enduring or continuing in time
Frequency
See relative frequency.
Duration
Continuance in time;
The ceremony was of short duration
He complained about the length of time required
Frequency
The rate of occurrence of anything; the relationship between incidence and time period.
With growing confidence, the Viking’s raids increased in frequency.
Frequency
(uncountable) The property of occurring often rather than infrequently.
Frequency
(countable) The quotient of the number of times a periodic phenomenon occurs over the time in which it occurs: .
Frequency
(statistics) number of times an event occurred in an experiment (absolute frequency)
Frequency
The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles.
The reasons that moved her to remove were, because Rome was a place of riot and luxury, her soul being almost stifled with, the frequencies of ladies' visits.
Frequency
A crowd; a throng.
Frequency
The number of occurrences within a given time period (usually 1 second);
The frequency of modulation was 40 cycles per second
Frequency
The ratio of the number of observations in a statistical category to the total number of observations
Frequency
The number of observations in a given statistical category
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