period

Definitions of period in various dictionaries:

noun - an amount of time

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

noun - (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games

noun - a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed

noun - the end or completion of something

noun - the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause

noun - a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

An interval of time characterized by the occurrence of a certain condition, event, or phenomenon: a period of economic prosperity.

An interval of time characterized by the prevalence of a specified culture, ideology, or technology: artifacts of the pre-Columbian period.

An interval regarded as a distinct evolutionary or developmental phase: Picasso’s early career is divided into his blue period and rose period.

A unit of time, longer than an epoch and shorter than an era.

Any of the divisions of the academic day.

A division of the playing time of a game.

The time interval between two successive occurrences of a recurrent event or phases of an event; a cycle.

An instance or occurrence of menstruation.

A point or portion of time at which something is ended; a completion or conclusion.

The full pause at the end of a spoken sentence.

A punctuation mark (.

A sentence of several carefully balanced clauses in formal writing.

A metrical unit of quantitative verse consisting of two or more cola.

An analogous unit or division of classical Greek or Latin prose.

A group of two or more phrases within a composition, made up of 8 or 16 measures and terminating with a cadence.

Mathematics.

The least interval in the range of the independent variable of a periodic function of a real variable in which all possible values of the dependent variable are assumed.

A group of digits separated by commas in a written number.

The number of digits that repeat in a repeating decimal.

A sequence of elements arranged in order of increasing atomic number and forming one of the horizontal rows in the periodic table.

noun - a portion of time