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period
('p/i/r/i//@/d
)
noun (n)
- an amount of time(noun.time)Example:
A time period of 30 years.
Hastened the period of time of his recovery.
Picasso's blue period.
source: wordnet30 - the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon(noun.time)source: wordnet30
- (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games(noun.time)source: wordnet30
- a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed(noun.time)Example:
Ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods.
source: wordnet30 - the end or completion of something(noun.time)Example:
Death put a period to his endeavors.
A change soon put a period to my tranquility.
source: wordnet30 - the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause(noun.process)source: wordnet30
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations(noun.communication)Example:
In England they call a period a stop.
source: wordnet30 - A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet.(noun)source: webster1913
verb (v)
- To put an end to.(verb)source: webster1913
- To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc.(verb)source: webster1913
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