| period | |
noun | |
| 1. | an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" [syn: time period] |
| 2. | the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon |
| 3. | (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games |
| 4. | a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods" |
| 5. | the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility" |
| 6. | 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 [syn: menstruation] |
| 7. | 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" http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/period |
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