Period (Noun)
Meaning 1
The interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon.
Classification
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
Examples
- The blinking light's period was one second, meaning it flashed once every second.
- Her favorite TV show aired for an hour each week, marking the midpoint in its week-long period.
- Astronomers measured the period of the planet's orbit around its star to predict future alignments.
- To better understand the tides, scientists studied the period of the moon's monthly rotation around the earth.
- The wave pattern had a period of three seconds, meaning it repeated itself every three seconds.
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Meaning 2
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".
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 3
(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games.
Classification
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
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Meaning 4
A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods".
Classification
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
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Meaning 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.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
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Meaning 6
The end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility".
Classification
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
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Meaning 7
An amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period".
Classification
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
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- Hours
- Shelf Life
- Golden Age
- Mid-June
- Grace
- Schooltime
- Civil Day
- Overtime
- Study Hall
- Heyday
- Work Time
- Indian Summer
- Phase Of The Moon
- Midwinter
- Youth
- Bimillennium
- Midweek
- Term Of A Contract
- Hitch
- Travel Time
- Lustrum
- Lunar Time Period
- Prime
- Noviciate
- Flush
- Bout
- Fortnight
- Sleep
- Half-life
- Nighttime
- Morning
- Semester
- Daytime
- Stage
- Honeymoon
- Quarter
- Generation
- Lifetime
- Mid-November
- Trimester
- Duty Tour
- Rainy Day
- Life
- Mid-July
- Long Run
- Time Limit
- Phase
- Efflorescence
- Quinquennium
- Drouth
- Novitiate
- Calendar Day
- Dawn
- Mid-September
- Occupation
- Month
- Iron Age
- Extra Time
- School
- Drought
- Mid-January
- Decade
- Mid-May
- Hour
- Watch
- Tour Of Duty
- Lifespan
- Hebdomad
- Prohibition
- Two Weeks
- Indiction
- Hospitalization
- Duration
- Long Haul
- Evening
- Mid-December
- Air Alert
- Half-century
- Enlistment
- Clotting Time
- Downtime
- Silly Season
- Prohibition Era
- Window
- Test Period
- Half Life
- Millennium
- Grace Period
- Time Off
- Prehistoric Culture
- Night
- Puerperium
- Calendar Week
- Lease
- Bimillenary
- Multistage
- Olympiad
- Lactation
- Eve
- Era
- Early Days
- Bloom
- Silver Age
- Time Of Year
- Times
- Weekend
- Great Year
- Millenary
- Uptime
- Time Frame
- Bimester
- Season
- Nap
- Time Of Life
- Twelvemonth
- Mid-April
- Run
- Real Time
- Peacetime
- Mid-August
- Platonic Year
- Decennary
- Elapsed Time
- Mid-October
- Mid-March
- Age
- Field Day
- Past
- Tide
- Running Time
- Day
- Century
- Long Time
- Week
- Continuance
- Mid-February
- Flower
- Reign
- Year
- Quadrennium
- Prehistory
- Regulation Time
- Canicule
- Usance
- Morn
- Term
- Epoch
- Dog Days
- Tour
- Question Time
- Time
- Bronze Age
- Saint Martin's Summer
- Trial Period
- Festival
- Wartime
- Calendar Month
- Incubation Period
- Quarter-century
- Blossom
- Forenoon