period
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- n an amount of time
a time period of 30 years
hastened the period of time of his recovery
Picasso's blue period - n the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
- n (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
- n a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods - n the end or completion of something
death put a period to his endeavors
a change soon put a period to my tranquility - n the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
- n 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
- By the end of the study period, the latter group had gained more than twice as much weight as the mice that ate during active hours: 10.
- Before this period of time he needed a photo ID when he showed up for work.
- Oddly, however, of all the period mores in the film, the old maritime tradition of "women and children first" enjoys total acceptance by modern audiences.