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period::noun | Spocien Dictionary
a time period of 30 years.
hastened the period of time of his recovery.
Picasso's blue period.
period::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, menstruum |
| Type of | emission, expelling, discharge |
| Has types | oligomenorrhea, hypermenorrhea, menorrhagia |
period::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | geological period |
| Type of | geologic time, geological time |
| Has types | ice age, glacial epoch, glacial period |
ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods.
period::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | full point, full stop, point, stop |
| Type of | punctuation, punctuation mark |
| Has types | suspension point |
in England they call a period a stop.
period::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | interval, time interval |
| Has types | orbit period |
| Derivation | periodical |
Examples of period
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That's a period when we first started being known as the Monsters of the Midway.
From the dailyherald.com
The Wildcats outscored the Bears 16-4 in the period led by senior Savanna Trees.
From the dailyherald.com
The third period was scoreless, but not for a lack of trying on Portland's part.
From the thenewstribune.com
Wright provided a spark for the Spartans before fouling out in the third period.
From the thenewstribune.com
In the first period, Team South got things going by burying its rebound chances.
From the bostonherald.com
He was then pulled for sophomore backup Parker Milner to start the third period.
From the bostonherald.com
The shekel has gained more than 5 percent against the dollar in the same period.
From the bloomberg.com
In the first half of 2008, Starbucks was entering a tremendously chaotic period.
From the newsweek.com
Anthony Maiani and Beau Bennett followed for a 3-1 Denver lead after one period.
From the denverpost.com
- Time period: an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
- 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"
- The end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
- Menstruation: 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 ...
- The menstrual cycle is a series of physiological changes that can occur in fertile females. Overt menstruation (where there is blood flow from the uterus through the vagina) occurs primarily in humans and close evolutionary relatives such as chimpanzees. ...
- Period (per) is a gene in Drosophila which encodes a protein, PER, regulating circadian rhythm. There are some known alleles of the per gene that can make the circadian cycle longer or shorter than the usual cycle (which is around 24 hours). It is still uncertain how exactly this gene operates.
- The geologic time scale provides a system of chronologic measurement relating stratigraphy to time that is used by geologists, paleontologists and other earth scientists to describe the timing and relationships between events that have occurred during the history of the Earth. ...
