Period (IPA: /ˈpɪɹiəd/)
| Period (n.) |
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. |
| Period (n.) |
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. |
| Period (n.) |
One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology. |
| Period (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. |
| Period (n.) |
A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence. |
| Period (n.) |
The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word. |
| Period (n.) |
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. |
| Period (n.) |
The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission. |
| Period (n.) |
A complete musical sentence. |
| Period (v. t.) |
To put an end to. |
| Period (v. i.) |
To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "LFT You may period upon this, that, RHT" etc. |
| Period |
Row in the periodic table of elements |
| Period |
Division in music |
| Period |
Period of oscillation (physics) |
| Period |
Time interval between adjacent events in a repeating process; reciprocal of frequency |
| Period |
Portion of a sporting event |
| Period Synonyms |
Geological Period |
| Period Synonyms |
Historic Period, Historical Period |
| Period Synonyms |
Menstruation, Flow, Menses, Menstruum, Catamenia |
| Period Synonyms |
Full Stop, Stop, Point, Full Point |
| Period Synonyms |
Period Of Time, Time Period |
| PERIOD (Acronym / Abbreviation) |
Periodical |
Period Rhymes
Myriad, Period |
| Spanish Translation |
Period in Spanish is Período |
| Tagalog Translation |
Period in Tagalog is Panahon |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "A culture truly changes only when a new way of operating has been shown to succeed over some minimum period of time." - John Kotter |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "At no period of human culture have men understood the psychic mechanism involved in invention and technology. (p. 300)" - Marshall McLuhan |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Life is nothing more but a grace period for turning the best of our genetic material into the next generation." - Life |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Never place a period where God has placed a comma." - God |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " Our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic." - Democracy |
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