Period
nounNoun
an amount of time
“a time period of 30 years”
“hastened the period of time of his recovery”
“Picasso's blue period”
a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
“ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods”
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”
the end or completion of something
“death put a period to his endeavors”
“a change soon put a period to my tranquility”
Type of:EndEndingthe monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
Type of:EmissionExpellingDischarge(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
Type of:SectionDivisionPartthe interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
Type of:Interval
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