period

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  • October 2. 2012 by jonasmunk from wordnet.princeton.edu

    period noun english

    an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"

  • March 1. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

    period noun english

    the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon

  • March 1. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

    period noun english

    (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games

  • March 1. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

    period noun english

    a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"

  • March 1. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

    period noun english

    the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"

  • March 1. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

    period noun english

    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

  • March 1. 2016 from wordnet.princeton.edu

    period noun english

    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"