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English to English noun
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an amount of time |  | Example: a time period of 30 years
hastened the period of time of his recovery
Picasso's blue period
source: wordnet30
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the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon | | source: wordnet30
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(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games | | source: wordnet30
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a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed | | Example: ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods
source: wordnet30
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the end or completion of something | | Example: death put a period to his endeavors
a change soon put a period to my tranquility
source: wordnet30
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the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | | Example: 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
source: wordnet30
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a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations | | Example: in England they call a period a stop
source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913 verb
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To put an end to. | | source: webster1913
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To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc. | | source: webster1913
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