duration

physical quantity for describing the temporal distance between events
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Summary

duration is a kind of quantity[1]. duration is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: ISQ base quantity[3]
  • Subclass of: physical quantity[4], scalar quantity[5], additive quantity[6], Q141188342[7], non-meta generic quality[8]
  • Said to be the same as: length[9]
  • Described by source: ISO 80000-3:2006 Quantities and units — Part 3: Space and time[10], ISO 80000-3:2019 Quantities and units — Part 3: Space and time[11], SI Brochure (9th edition): Concise summary[12], National Encyclopedia of Uzbekistan[13]
  • Main Wikidata property: P2047[14]
  • Equivalent class: https://schema.org/Duration[15], http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/duration[16], http://purl.org/ontology/mo/duration[17], http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/E52_Time-Span[18], http://www.w3.org/2006/time#Duration[19], https://w3id.org/gso/1.0/common/Duration[20]
  • Different from: time[21], time interval[22]
  • Contains: duration[23]
  • Recommended unit of measurement: second[24], minute[25], hour[26], day[27]
  • Mathematical inverse: reciprocal duration[28]
  • P14884: 0001309[29]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . ISO 80000-1:2009 Quantities and units—Part 1: General. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Q141256658. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Schema.org. wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . BIBFRAME. wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Time Ontology in OWL. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . Q141222183. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . ISO 80000-3:2006 Quantities and units — Part 3: Space and time. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . ISO 80000-3:2006 Quantities and units — Part 3: Space and time. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . ISO 80000-3:2006 Quantities and units — Part 3: Space and time. wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . ISO 80000-3:2006 Quantities and units — Part 3: Space and time. wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 19h ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Exact match → —
    Equivalent class → https://schema.org/Duration, http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/duration, http://purl.org/ontology/mo/duration +3
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Exact match: https://schema.org/duration"
  2. 22h ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → https://schema.org/Duration, http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/duration, http://purl.org/ontology/mo/duration +3
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Work/runtime"
  3. 4d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 2063, 2567
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 2567, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7327878|duration (#7327878)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  4. 5d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Isocat id → 2063, 2567
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Isocat id: 2063, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/7327509|duration (#7327509)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/125|ISOCAT]] #mix'n'match"
  5. 14d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 3
    Wikipedia languages → ['ja', 'nl', 'uz']
    P14884 → 0001309
    Wurvoc.org measure id → Time
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Wurvoc.org measure id: Duration, Moving to Q141629282"
  6. 4w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → physical quantity, scalar quantity, additive quantity +2
    Equivalent class → https://schema.org/Duration, http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/duration, http://purl.org/ontology/mo/duration +3
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Equivalent class: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001309"
  7. 6w ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → https://schema.org/Duration, http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/duration, http://purl.org/ontology/mo/duration +3
    Subclass of → physical quantity, scalar quantity, additive quantity +2
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Equivalent class: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001309"
  8. 6w ago · عُثمان · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → physical quantity, scalar quantity, additive quantity +2
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Subclass of: Q141188342"
  9. 10w ago · FitikWasTaken · 2026-08-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||isv-cyrl, isv-latn */"
  10. 16w ago · Wikimi-dhiann · 2026-06-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Contains → duration
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Contains: duration"
  11. 16w ago · Wikimi-dhiann · 2026-06-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Has part(s): duration"
  12. 21w 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://purl.org/ontology/mo/duration +3
    + 29 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ Yso id: 5916, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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