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1. | [ noun ] an amount of time | |
Synonyms: | period_of_time time_period amount_of_time | |
Examples: | "a time period of 30 years" "hastened the period of time of his recovery" "Picasso's blue period" |
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Related terms: | measure fundamental_measure year week time season time phase night century day morning calendar_month season school year decade life life week long_time era weekend fortnight season point term generation year duration life past time_off millennium quarter-century hours incubation_period time_of_life festival youth day watch mid-June flower running_time Indian_summer drought reign half_life enlistment night night prohibition novitiate hour occupation silly_season trimester window silver_age bronze_age Golden_Age lactation lower_paleolithic upper_paleolithic air_alert bimillennium Iron_Age Eolithic_Age Bronze_Age Stone_Age iron_age Mesolithic_Age Paleolithic_Age great_year Neolithic_Age semester shelf_life elapsed_time overtime regulation_time dog_days Olympiad bimester midwinter lustrum calendar_day long_run prehistory dawn quarter half-century field_day work_time lease sleep evening tide multistage mid-January phase_of_the_moon peacetime wartime mid-March indiction honeymoon mid-May mid-April mid-February night rainy_day mid-July clotting_time time_frame uptime mid-September mid-August evening depression puerperium study_hall real_time mid-November test_period usance question_time hospitalization time_limit mid-December middle_paleolithic mid-October run eve real_time travel_time downtime | |
2. | [ noun ] (history) a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time | |
Synonyms: | historical_period historic_period | |
Examples: | "a novel from the Victorian period" |
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Related terms: | time_period | |
3. | [ noun ] the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon | |
Related terms: | time_interval orbit_period | |
4. | [ noun ] a time of life characterized as a distinct phase | |
Examples: | "Picasso's blue period" "it was the happy period of my life" |
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Related terms: | time_interval time_of_life orbit_period | |
5. | [ noun ] (biology,medicine) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | |
Synonyms: | menses catamenia flow menstruum menstruation | |
Examples: | "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation" "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates |
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Related terms: | discharge menorrhagia oligomenorrhea menstruate | |
6. | [ noun ] a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations | |
Synonyms: | full_stop stop full_point point | |
Examples: | "in England they call a period a stop" |
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Related terms: | punctuation suspension_point point | |
7. | [ noun ] (geology) a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed | |
Synonyms: | geological_period | |
Examples: | "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods" |
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Related terms: | geological_time Permian Cretaceous Jurassic ice_age Silurian Carboniferous Pennsylvanian Mississippian Devonian Ordovician Triassic Cambrian Tertiary Quaternary era epoch | |
8. | [ noun ] (sport,ice hockey) one of three periods of play in hockey games | |
Related terms: | playing_period | |
9. | [ noun ] the end or completion of something | |
Examples: | "death put a period to his endeavors" "a change soon put a period to my tranquility" |
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Related terms: | end | |
Similar spelling: |
Perrotti Perrotta Peart Perret |