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, period of time]
2: one of three periods of play in hockey games
3: a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place
in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period"
[syn: historic period, historical period]
4: the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly
repeating phenomenon
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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 [syn: menstruation,
menses, menstruum, catamenia, flow]
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" [syn: point, full
stop, stop, full point]
7: a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks
formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier
geological periods" [syn: geological period]
8: the end or completion of something; "death put a period to
his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my
tranquility"
