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period
noun(pe-ri-od)
an amount of time
Synonyms: period of time, time period,
Examples:
A time period of 30 years.
Hastened the period of time of his recovery.
Picasso's blue period.
period
noun(pe-ri-od)
the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
period
noun(pe-ri-od)
a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
Synonyms: geological period,
Examples:
Ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods.
period
noun(pe-ri-od)
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
Synonyms: full point, full stop, point, stop,
Examples:
In England they call a period a stop.
period
noun(pe-ri-od)
(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
period
noun(pe-ri-od)
the end or completion of something
Examples:
Death put a period to his endeavors.
A change soon put a period to my tranquility.
period
noun(pe-ri-od)
the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon

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