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indefinite duration

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meanings of indefiniteand duration


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indefinite
adjective
uk /ɪnˈdef.ɪ.nət/ us /ɪnˈdef.ən.ət/
not exact, not clear, or without ...
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duration
noun[U]
uk /dʒʊəˈreɪ.ʃən/ us /duːˈreɪ.ʃən/
the length of time that ...
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Examples of indefinite duration


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Rays have been simulated by using photon number profiles very narrow in space and with indefiniteduration in time.
A specific calculation allows us to affirm that indefiniteduration implies the realization of all probabilities.
Certainly, the first notion of the invariability of the forms derives from the practically indefiniteduration of the solid body.
It is an outdoor sound installation of indefiniteduration and, in this particular performance, was specifically designed for a large backyard with a good dozen or so large trees.
So long as we do not know the date of our deaths then for each of us the "rest of our lives" is of indefiniteduration.
His wording, "a sentence of indefiniteduration", would help to stiffen the expression "life sentence" which means nothing to the criminal who really knows.
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It is whole-time service of indefiniteduration as is to be expected in the context of general war.
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Of course, the arrangements for sugar are of indefiniteduration and are not up for renegotiation.
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The figures are 38 appointments for a specific period and one appointment of indefiniteduration.
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These quotas are of indefiniteduration, provided that the countries concerned continue to fulfil them.
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This golden share will be of indefiniteduration and will exist so long as government have a meaningful share in the partnership.
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Those commitments are of indefiniteduration, and to that extent they are commitments to which we must hold, and that we must support.
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He can have the assurance, quite definitely, that this is a policy deliberately intended and introduced, and it is of an indefiniteduration.
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You will have noted that, compared with the earlier directives the arrangements proposed are of indefiniteduration.
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Then we could have a conference, perhaps of indefiniteduration, on those terms.
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That is not in the same position as bananas because it is covered by a protocol of indefiniteduration.
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Agreement was reached on a protocol which embodies the principle of indefiniteduration of access arrangements.
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It is of indefiniteduration, with no date given for resumption.
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We should have found ourselves involved in a three-cornered war of indefiniteduration.
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