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  • adjective Of or pertaining to duration.

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duration +‎ -al

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Examples

  • Does he find himself flowing mysteriously forth, along some indescribable "durational" stream, and, as he flows, feeling himself to be that stream?

    The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917

  • "durational" time, in which the real process of the life-flow transcends all reason and logic.

    The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917

  • Lockean theory gives copyright owners a right to control Problems arise with respect to differences in rights compared to real property — right to exclude and durational limit.

    IPSC: Copyright/Right of Publicity/GIs Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • Quality of durational patterns sourced from the creative pool of computational time were often "weird" and counter intuitive.

    Carla Leitao: Dustism, Creatures and Speculative Materialism in Architecture: An Interview With Alisa Andrasek/Biothing Carla Leitao 2012

  • The language of the grant was conditional, but not durational, so what we have is a fee simple subject to condition subsequent, and not a fee simple determinable.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Mojave Cross Decision (Salazar v. Buono) Handed Down 2010

  • The torture statute defines torture as acting under color of law so as to cause severe physical or mental pain or suffering, and severe mental pain or suffering is defined in durational terms.

    Two Decades of Pursuing al Qaeda James Taranto 2011

  • The zone that Abramovic enters when she undertakes "a long-durational performance" is perhaps the defining aspect of her art, yet it remains an ambiguous and hard-to-define element in her work.

    Interview: Marina Abramovic Sean O 2010

  • …We can bemoan the situation that we're in, but it's all durational.

    Tempers Fray Over Recovery's Pace Lisa Fleisher 2011

  • It took the form of what Abramovic calls "a pared-down, long-durational piece that destroys the illusion of time".

    Interview: Marina Abramovic Sean O 2010

  • Lockean theory gives copyright owners a right to control Problems arise with respect to differences in rights compared to real property — right to exclude and durational limit.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

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