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period

/ period /
noun

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
"in England they call a period a stop"
Type of:
punctuation punctuation mark
Kinds of:
suspension point
Derived:
point
noun Sense 2
the end or completion of something
"death put a period to his endeavors"
"a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
Type of:
end ending
noun Sense 3
a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
"ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
Type of:
geological time geologic time
Kinds of:
Quaternary Quaternary period Age of Man Tertiary Tertiary period
Has parts:
era geological era
noun Sense 4
one of three periods of play in hockey games
Type of:
playing period period of play play
noun Sense 5
the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
Type of:
time interval interval
Kinds of:
orbit period
noun Sense 6
a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time
"a novel from the Victorian period"
Type of:
time period period of time
noun Sense 7
an amount of time
"a time period of 30 years"
"hastened the period of time of his recovery"
"Picasso''s blue period"
Type of:
fundamental quantity fundamental measure
Kinds of:
trial period test period time frame hours downtime
noun Sense 8
the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
"the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"
"a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates"
"the semen begins to"
Type of:
discharge emission expelling
Kinds of:
menorrhagia hypermenorrhea oligomenorrhea
Derived:
menstruate flow
Semantic Complexity
97%
Sense Count
8
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
38
Times Searched
3
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punctuation punctuation mark suspension point end ending geological time geologic time Quaternary Quaternary period Age of Man Tertiary Tertiary period