TERM AND TRANSLATION

duration

duréeduration

The site uses the established Bergsonian 绵延 to distinguish duration from measurable length; 时延 remains indexed for Taiwanese film scholarship and edition-specific usage.

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Atlas working translation

绵延

French term
durée
English term
duration
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Variants and search terms

  • 持续Simplified record
  • 持续时间Simplified record
  • 时延Simplified record
  • 内在时间Simplified record
  • 綿延Traditional record
  • 持續Traditional record
  • 時延Traditional record
  • durationCommon / non-Chinese record
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Conceptual boundary

Duration is qualitative change whose moments interpenetrate and resist lossless division into homogeneous units; speed, length, and subjective feeling are separate measures.

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Sources and translations

  1. 01
    Gilles Deleuze, Le Bergsonisme, PUF, 1966

    Primary text for Deleuze’s reconstruction of duration, memory, the virtual, and multiplicity.

  2. 02
    《柏格森主义》,安靖译,上海人民出版社,2023

    Published Mainland translation documenting current Chinese philosophical usage.

  3. 03
    Gilles Deleuze, Cinéma 2. L’image-temps, Minuit, 1985

    French primary text and terminological baseline.

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  4. 04
    “德勒兹词典”中文社区语料

    Community index for discovering regional and historical variants.

    Open external source ↗
  5. 05
    Time-Image Research Atlas terminology policy, v1

    Atlas terms govern prose, aliases remain searchable, and original-language forms accompany first use.

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Related concepts and terms