period

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A period is all about defining when something begins and ends. Class periods usually last about forty five minutes. Following the last food fight, there was a period of relative peace in the school.

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A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet.

Noun
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"

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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

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

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

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

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one of three periods of play in hockey games

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

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a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period"


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A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet.

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A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic.

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One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.

n.
The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion.

n.
A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence.

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The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word.

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One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals.

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The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission.

n.
A complete musical sentence.

v. t.
To put an end to.

v. i.
To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc.


Period

Pe"ri*od , n. [L. periodus, Gr. a going round, a way round, a circumference, a period of time; round, about + a way: cf. F. p'82riode.] 1. A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet. 2. Hence: A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic.
How by art to make plants more lasting than their ordinary period.
3. (Geol.) One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology. 4. The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion. Bacon.
So spake the archangel Michael; then paused, As at the world's great period.
Evils which shall never end till eternity hath a period.
This is the period of my ambition.
5. (Rhet.) A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence. "Devolved his rounded periods." Tennyson.
Periods are beautiful when they are not too long.
&hand; The period, according to Heyse, is a compound sentence consisting of a protasis and apodosis; according to Becker, it is the appropriate form for the co'94rdinate propositions related by antithesis or causality. Gibbs. 6. (Print.) The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word. 7. (Math.) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals. 8. (Med.) The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission. 9. (Mus.) A complete musical sentence. The period, the present or current time, as distinguished from all other times. Syn. -- Time; date; epoch; era; age; duration; limit; bound; end; conclusion; determination.

Period

Pe"ri*od , v. t. To put an end to. [Obs.] Shak.

Period

Pe"ri*od, v. i. To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc. Felthman.

A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet.

To put an end to.

To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc.

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Usage Examples

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

During this period at the Department of Education, my working relationship with Judge Thomas was positive.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.

About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good.

As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and underemployment from which we have yet to emerge.

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

All the real work is done in the rehearsal period.

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