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period
Found in thesaurus: fundamental quantity, fundamental measure, playing period, play, period of play, time period, period of time, interval, time interval, emission, discharge, expelling, punctuation, punctuation mark, geologic time, geological time, end, ending
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period
n.
punctuation mark resembling a small dot (the mark . ) placed at the end of a sentence; end; pause at end of a phrase; full sentence
n.
menstrual period, menstrual cycle
n.
age, era; season; lesson; length of time; (Sports) one of the segments of the playing time of a game (such as quarter, half or overtime)
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Period
Period may refer to:
Common meanings
- Era, a length or span of time
- Full stop or period, a punctuation mark
- Menstruation, also called a "period"
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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"
(synonym) time period, period of time
(hypernym) fundamental quantity, fundamental measure
(hyponym) trial period, test period
2. one of three periods of play in hockey games
(hypernym) playing period, period of play, play
3. a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period"
(synonym) historic period, historical period
(hypernym) time period, period of time
4. the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
(hypernym) time interval, interval
(hyponym) orbit period
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
(synonym) menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, flow
(hypernym) discharge, emission, expelling
(hyponym) menorrhagia, hypermenorrhea
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"
(synonym) point, full stop, stop, full point
(hypernym) punctuation, punctuation mark
(hyponym) suspension point
7. a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
(synonym) geological period
(hypernym) geological time, geologic time
(hyponym) Quaternary, Quaternary period, Age of Man
(part-holonym) era, geological era
(part-meronym) epoch
8. the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
(hypernym) end, ending
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period
n.
období; doba; vyučovací hodina; menstruace; epocha
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period
Rzecz.
okres; godzina lekcyjna; miesiączka
