duration

The duration/period/time between pauses averages just one second.

You haven't told us the duration of each pause.

optilangYou haven't told us the duration of each pause.

Is it relevant?
I'm interested in the playing time, not the pause time.

Why is duration wrong?

It sounds a little strange to me to have duration without stating of what.

Also, to me, duration implies, to me, a longer period of time than just one second.

I stayed in France for the duration of the holidays.

If you do something for the duration, it implies a long period of time.

Further, your sentence says that there are a lot of pauses, resul

optilang the amount of time/period of the pause is about one second.

If I understand this correctly, there's some misunderstanding.

|----------------pause-----------------|--playing-|----------------pause---------------|--playing--|-------- ...
|<-

Are we on the same page?

Yes, sir.

The duration of each pause is 1 second.

In your sentence:

The duration (between pauses) averages just one second.

just sounds a little strange to me. That is why I chose period.

Oh no. The diagram didn't come out right.

I want to say the average playing time is 1 second. Let's say the first pause ends now and a stop watch starts now. When the next pause starts, the stop watch will read about 1 second.

Oh dear, never mind the same page, I don't think I've opened the book yet!

Yes, you are right - the period between the pauses = on average, 1 second, so the clip plays for about 1 second at a time between pauses.

I'm going to suggest an alternative.

The clip pauses so frequently because of the slow connection that it's annoying to watch. It only plays for about one/a se

I think this is going to be a long thread. If you're bored, I can try to get another expert to answer. Perhaps, I should create a new thread since it's slowly drifting away from my original question.

My new question is about the difference between duration and period.

From your replies, I see a pattern. As you said, I didn't present enough context when the word duration comes in

For me,

Duration = the time something continues/lasts

Period = the amount of time, a length of time.

To come back to your original sentence:

The duration/period between pauses averages just one second.

The time it continues (to play) between pauses averages just one second. = duration - continues to play for one second sounds strange to me.

Could you give me a similar example of duration between that works?

Tell that to your boss if you have one