an amount of time; a time period of 30 years; hastened the period of time of his recovery; Picassos blue period

[ Syn: time period , period of time ]

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

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

a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods

[ Syn: geological period ]

the end or completion of something; death put a period to his endeavors; a change soon put a period to my tranquility'

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--Hippocrates; 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--Aristotle

[ Syn: menstruation , menses , menstruum , catamenia , flow ]

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

[ Syn: point , full stop , stop , full point ]