period

n. punctuation mark resembling a small dot (the mark . ) placed at the end of a sentence; end; pause at end of a phrase; full sentence

n. menstrual period, menstrual cycle

n. age, era; season; lesson; length of time; (Sports) one of the segments of the playing time of a game (such as quarter, half or overtime)

Period and periodic may refer to:An interval of time that an event, chain of events, instance or happening, takes place within. It is measured between a start point and an end point and generally repeats (which is where the term period came to describe a female's menstrual cycle) or progresses, in a with the end point of one period being the start point of the next.A periodic sentence.A full stop, a punctuation mark which indicates the end of a sentence (.).
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Noun
1. an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
(synonym) time period, period of time
(hypernym) fundamental quantity, fundamental measure
(hyponym) trial period, test period
2. one of three periods of play in hockey games
(hypernym) playing period, period of play, play
3. a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period"
(synonym) historic period, historical period
(hypernym) time period, period of time
4. the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
(hypernym) time interval, interval
(hyponym) orbit period
5. 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 appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle
(synonym) menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, flow
(hypernym) discharge, emission, expelling
(hyponym) menorrhagia, hypermenorrhea
6. 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"
(synonym) point, full stop, stop, full point
(hypernym) punctuation, punctuation mark
(hyponym) suspension point
7. a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
(synonym) geological period
(hypernym) geological time, geologic time
(hyponym) Quaternary, Quaternary period, Age of Man
(part-holonym) era, geological era
(part-meronym) epoch
8. the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
(hypernym) end, ending

(v. t.)
To put an end to.
  

(v. i.)
To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc.
  

(n.)
The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission.
  

(n.)
The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion.
  

(n.)
The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word.
  

(n.)
One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.
  

(n.)
One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals.
  

(n.)
A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic.
  

(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence.
  

(n.)
A complete musical sentence.
  

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