The phrase "relative duration" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to describe the length of time something lasts relative to something else. For example, "The relative duration of the journey across the country was shorter than expected."
Such symbols when placed on a staff may indicate relative pitch and relative duration.
Most surviving trouvère music is written in a notation that indicates the pitch of the notes but not their relative duration or accentuation, an omission that has given rise to much debate as to rhythmic interpretation in the edition of the songs for modern performance.
In this example, participants are required to recall when dinosaurs disappeared, when humans appeared, and compare the relative duration in between the two events.
For the four remaining items, students were asked to judge relative duration of an event (for example, "How far do continental plates move in a single year").
Physiologically, with steady inotropy and fixed outflow surface area, the change in the relative duration of systole should correlate with the stroke volume change [8].
We also calculated the relative duration of time when the dogs oriented "outwards" from the play situation to the other non-interacting person (owner or experimenter) during a session.
The aim of this experimental work was to study the influence of the operation mode (i.e. cycle time and relative duration of ads-/desorption phases, R) as well as of the operating conditions on the performance of an adsorption chiller.
The average stroke cycle duration and the relative duration of the catch and glide phases were reduced in the flume trial, which was perceived as very intense, whereas the pull and push phases were longer.
These segregating populations (Las Rosas INTA × Triguero 230 (A) and Klein Estrella × ProINTA B. Alazán (B)) were derived from parental lines with similar flowering time but different relative duration of their pre-anthesis phases.
In the first phase, of relative duration α, the primary transmitter broadcasts its message using the NT,1 antennas with transmit covariance matrix K 1 ( 1 ) ≽ 0. The primary receiver and secondary transmitter listen to this transmission.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the degree of diffusion of RT002 in comparison to another commercially available BoNTA product, Botox® Cosmetic (OnabotulinumtoxinA, Allergan, Inc., Irvine, CA, USA), and establish the relative duration of effect for diffusion matched doses of the two BoNTA formulations using quantitative measurements in mice.
