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Period

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Definitions for Period

noun
an amount of time
Synonyms
time period period of time
Examples
  1. a time period of 30 years
  2. hastened the period of time of his recovery
  3. Picasso's blue period
noun
the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
noun
(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
noun
a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
Synonyms
geological period
Examples
  1. ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods
noun
the end or completion of something
Examples
  1. death put a period to his endeavors
  2. a change soon put a period to my tranquility
noun
the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
Synonyms
menstruation menses menstruum catamenia flow
Examples
  1. the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation
  2. a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates
  3. the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle
noun
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
Synonyms
point full stop stop full point
Examples
  1. in England they call a period a stop

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