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Directory Words Dictionary pe·ri·od (pîr'ē-əd)
n.
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.
Geology. A unit of time, longer than an epoch and shorter than an era.
Any of various arbitrary units of time, especially
Any of the divisions of the academic day.
Sports & Games. A division of the playing time of a game.
Physics & Astronomy. The time interval between two successive occurrences of a
recurrent event or phases of an event; a cycle the period of a satellite's orbit.
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 (.) indicating a full stop, placed at the end of declarative
sentences and other statements thought to be complete, and after many
abbreviations.
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.
Music. A group of two or more phrases within a composition, often 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. For example, 17 =
0.142857142857 . . . has a six-digit period.
Chemistry. A sequence of elements arranged in order of increasing atomic number
and forming one of the horizontal rows in the periodic table.
adj.
Of, belonging to, or representing a certain historical age or time a period piece;
period furniture.

interj.
Used to emphasize finality, as when expressing a decision or an opinion You're not
going to the movies tonight, period!
[Middle English periode, from Old French, from Medieval Latin periodus, from Latin
perihodos, rhetorical period, from Greek periodos, circuit peri-, peri- + hodos,
way.]

SYNONYMS period, epoch, era, age, term. These nouns refer to a portion or length
of time. Period is the most general a short waiting period; a difficult period of
my life; the Romantic period in music. Epoch refers to a period regarded as being
remarkable or memorable “We enter on an epoch of constitutional retrogression”
(John R. Green). An era is a period of time notable because of new or different
aspects or events “How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading
of a book” (Henry David Thoreau). An age is usually a period marked by a
distinctive characteristic the age of Newton; the Iron Age. A term is a period of
time to which limits have been set Senators are elected for a term of six years.

WORD HISTORY Many may have wondered why the word period has the sense
“punctuation mark ( . )” as well as several senses having to do with time. The
answer to this question lies in one of the senses of the Greek word periodos from
which our word is descended. Periodos, made up of peri–, “around,” and hodos,
“way,” in addition to meaning such things as “going around, way around, going
around in a circle, circuit,” and with regard to time, “cycle or period of time,”
referred in rhetoric to “a group of words organically related in grammar and
sense.” The Greek word was adopted into Latin as perihodos, which in the Medieval
Latin period acquired a new sense related to its use in rhetoric, “a punctuation
mark used at the end of a rhetorical period.” This sense is not recorded in
English until 1609, but the word had already entered English as a borrowing from
Old French in the sense “a cycle of recurrence of a disease,” first being recorded
in a work written around 1425.

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Business Terms
Directory Business Business Terms Period
Interval of time as long or short as fits the situation.

Thesaurus
Directory Words Thesaurus period

noun

A specific length of time characterized by the occurrence of certain conditions or

events season, span, stretch, term. See time.
A particular time notable for its distinctive characteristics age, day, epoch,
era, time (often used in plural). See time.
An interval regarded as a distinct evolutionary or developmental unit phase,
stage. See time.
A span designated for a given activity season, time. See time.
A concluding or terminating cease, cessation, close, closing, closure, completion,
conclusion, consummation, end, ending, end of the line, finish, stop, stopping
point, termination, terminus, wind-up, wrap-up. See continuestoppause.

Britannica
Directory Reference Britannica Concise period
In geology, the basic unit of the geologic time scale. During these spans of time,
specific systems of rocks were formed. Originally, the method for defining the
sequence of periods was relative; it was based on stratigraphy and paleontology.
Carbon-14 dating and similar methods are now used to determine absolute ages for
various periods.

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Encyclopedia
Directory Reference Encyclopedia period, unit of time on the geologic timescale.
Periods are shorter than an era and longer than an epoch. Periods are of variable
length, generally lasting tens of millions of years, with characteristic fossils
found preserved in the sediments deposited during the period. It is also used to
designate a characteristic of geologic time, such as the glacial period.

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Grammar
Directory Words Grammar period

A punctuation mark (.) that ends a declarative sentence. A period is also used in
abbreviations such as Mr. and Dr.

Medical
Directory Health Medical Dictionary pe·ri·od (pĭr'ē-əd)
n.
An interval of time characterized by the occurrence of a certain condition, event,
or phenomenon.
One of the stages of a disease.
A menstrual period.
A sequence of elements arranged in order of increasing atomic number.

Electronics
Directory Science Electronics period

Time to complete one full cycle of a periodic or repeating waveform.

 Music
Directory Arts Music Glossary Period
A musical statement, made up of two or more phrases, and a cadence.

Military
Directory Military Military Terms period
(DOD) The time it takes for a satellite to complete one orbit around the earth. As
a rule of thumb, satellites with periods of 87.5 minutes are on the verge of
reentry.

Word Tutor
Directory Words Word Tutor period

IN BRIEF A punctuation mark placed at the end of a declarative sentence to

indicate a full stop or after abbreviations.

The sentence doesn't end until the period is placed at the end.

WordNet
Directory Words WordNet Note click on a word meaning below to see its
connections and related words.
The noun period has 8 meanings

Meaning #1 an amount of time

Synonyms time period, period of time

Meaning #2 one of three periods of play in hockey games

Meaning #3 a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space

and time
Synonyms historic period, historical period

Meaning #4 the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating

phenomenon

Meaning #5 the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women
from puberty to menopause
Synonyms menstruation, menses, catamenia, flow

Meaning #6 a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to

indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
 Synonyms point, full stop, stop, full point

Meaning #7 a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed

Synonym geological period

Meaning #8 the end or completion of something

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Wikipedia
Directory Reference Wikipedia period

Period and periodic may refer to

A full stop, also known as a period, a punctuation mark which indicates the end of
a sentence.
An interval of time that an event, chain of events, instance or happening, takes
place within. It is measured between a start point and an end point and generally
repeats, or progresses, in a cycle with the end point of one period being the
start point of the next.

Business
In business, particularly accounting, a period is the time interval(s) that the
accounts, statement, payments, or other calculations cover. The interval may vary
depending on the situation. e.g. Payments, Receipts, Taxes - annually, quarterly
or monthly. Salary or wages - monthly, fortnightly or weekly.

Education
In schools, a period is the time allocated in the school timetable for instruction
in a particular subject. Most government and private schools have six periods in a
day, but some schools, such as MLC, have only four, with a study period making it
five. A study period is time where students are intended to undertake self-
directed study.

History
Historical period

Performing Arts
Period piece

Music
Period (music)

Philosophy
Periodic sentence

Science
Periodization, is the attempt to categorize or divide time, or history, into
discrete named blocks.

Biology
Menstrual cycle, relating to the reproductive system
Chemistry
Periodic acid, The name is not derived from period, but from iodine per-iodic
acid.
Periodic table, a table of the chemical elements arranged based on their chemical
and physical similarities and differences.
Periodic table period, which is a row of elements in the periodic table.

Geology
Geologic period, in geology

Mathematics
Periodic function, in mathematics and electronics.
Doubly-periodic function
Periodic point
Periodic points of complex quadratic mappings
Recurring decimal
Periodic group
In a group, the period of an element a is the smallest integer n such that an = e,
the identity.

Physics
In physics, a period is an interval of time between the recurrence of phases in a
vibration, waveform etc.

Astronomy
Orbital period, in astronomy

Optics
Periodic poling

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Translations
Directory Words Translations Translations for Period
Dansk (Danish)
n. - periode, undervisningstime, menstruation, punktum
adj. - tids-

idioms

period piece fint eksempel på en genstand fra en bestemt periode

Nederlands (Dutch)
tijdperk, tijdvak, tijdruimte, punt, lesuur, menstruatie, passage volzin, periode
(wiskunde scheikundemuziek), typerend voor bepaald tijdperk, ... en daarmee uit
Français (French)
n. - (gén, Astron, Hist) période, époque, (Art) période, (US, lit, fig) point,
menstruations, (École) cours, leçon, (Sport) période de jeu, manche
adj. - d'époque, caractéristique de l'époque, de style (ancien)

idioms

period piece curiosité d'époque

Deutsch (German)
n. - Zeitalter, Periode, Pause, Satz(gefüge), Punkt, Monatsblutung, Zeit,
Abschnitt
adj. - Perioden...

idioms

period piece Zeitstück, Zeitroman

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (χρονική) περίοδος, ώρα μαθήματος, (γραμμ.) τελεία (στιγμή), (μτφ.) εποχή

idioms

period piece κομμάτι ιστορικής αξίας

Italiano (Italian)
era, epoca, periodo, durata, intervallo, ora di lezione, punto, ciclo, flusso
mestruale

idioms

period piece mobile di antiquariato

Português (Portuguese)
n. - período (m), menstruação (f), fase (f), ponto final (m), ciclo (m), revolução
(f) (Astr.)

idioms

period piece peça de épocaantiga

� усский (Russian)
период, точка, цикл, месячные

idioms

period piece вещица, типичная для своей эпохи

Español (Spanish)
n. - período, época, era, plazo, hora, clase, punto, pausa, ciclo, regla, menstruo
adj. - perteneciente a, evocativo de, imitando o representando un período
histórico

idioms

period piece característico de la época

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - (tids)period, skede, lektion, punkt, slut, menstruation

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))

时期, 期间, 课, 课时, 时代, 周期, 过去某段时期的

idioms

period piece 古物, 文物, 古代作品, 时代作品

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))

n. - 時期, 期間, 課, 課時, 時代, 周期
adj. - 過去某段時期的

idioms

period piece 古物, 文物, 古代作品, 時代作品

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 기간, 시대, 말기
adj. - 어느(과거의) 시대의

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 期間, 時代, 現代, ピリオド, 時限, 一区切り, 紀, 周期, …期
adj. - ある時代の
int. - 以上, それ� けのこと

idioms

incubation period 潜伏期間, 孵卵期間, 潜伏期

period of repayment 返 済期間
period piece 時代物

‫( العربيه‬Arabic)
‫ نقطه‬,‫ العادة الشهريه عند النساء‬,‫ طمث‬,‫ حصه دراسيه‬,‫ عصر‬,‫ عهد‬,‫ طور‬,‫ مدة‬,‫)السم( فترة‬
‫ جمله تامه‬,‫تدل على انتهاء الجمله‬

‫( עברית‬Hebrew)
n. - ‫ משפט מלא‬,‫ מחזורת‬,‫ הקפה‬,‫ עו� ה‬,‫ שיעור‬,‫זמן‬-‫ משך‬,‫ � קודה‬,‫ וסת‬,‫ מחזור‬,‫תקופה‬
adj. - ‫שייך לתקופה בעבר או מאפיין אותה‬

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