noun. an amount of time a time period of 30 years|hastened the period of time of his recovery|Picasso's blue period |
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 ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods |
noun. the end or completion of something death put a period to his endeavors|a change soon put a period to my tranquility |
noun. 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|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 |
noun. 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 |
