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period
has definitions from the fields of biology,medicine,geology,sport,ice hockey,history
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[ noun ] an amount of time
Synonyms Examples "a time period of 30 years" "hastened the period of time of his recovery" "Picasso's blue period" Used in print (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)I remember his beardown performance in a meaningless exhibition_game at Bears_Stadium Oct. 14 , 1951 , before a new record crowd for the period of 18792 . (St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)The club that overcame the worst start in a comparable period to win the pennant was New_York 's '51 Giants , who dropped 11 of their first 13 . The two top talents of the time , Mickey_Mantle and Willie_Mays , have hit the ball harder and more successfully so_far this early season than at any period in careers which , to be frank about it , never have quite reached expectations . (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)During this precarious period of development the mother should continue to influence the growth of the child 's conscience . (The Christian Science Monitor,...)In an hour remembered for its almost rudderless movement , a score of jazz luminaries went before the cameras for lengthy periods . Related terms measure fundamental_measure year week time season time phase night century day morning calendar_month season school year decade life life week long_time era weekend fortnight season point term generation year duration life past time_off millennium quarter-century hours incubation_period time_of_life festival youth day watch mid-June flower running_time Indian_summer drought reign half_life enlistment night night prohibition novitiate hour occupation silly_season trimester window silver_age bronze_age Golden_Age lactation lower_paleolithic upper_paleolithic air_alert bimillennium Iron_Age Eolithic_Age Bronze_Age Stone_Age iron_age Mesolithic_Age Paleolithic_Age great_year Neolithic_Age semester shelf_life elapsed_time overtime regulation_time dog_days Olympiad bimester midwinter lustrum calendar_day long_run prehistory dawn quarter half-century field_day work_time lease sleep evening tide multistage mid-January phase_of_the_moon peacetime wartime mid-March indiction honeymoon mid-May mid-April mid-February night rainy_day mid-July clotting_time time_frame uptime mid-September mid-August evening depression puerperium study_hall real_time mid-November test_period usance question_time hospitalization time_limit mid-December middle_paleolithic mid-October run eve real_time travel_time downtime |
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[ noun ] (history) a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time
Synonyms Examples "a novel from the Victorian period" Related terms |
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[ noun ] the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
Used in print (Walter H. Buchsbaum, "Advances in Medical Electronics"...)The total picture is only seen by the camera which integrates the many sector scans over the entire 90 - degree rotation period . (L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)But when waves with a period of between 10 and 40 minutes begin to roll over the ocean , they set_in_motion a corresponding oscillation in a column of mercury which closes an electric_circuit . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a time of life characterized as a distinct phase
Examples "Picasso's blue period" "it was the happy period of my life" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (biology,medicine) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
Synonyms Examples "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation" "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates Related terms |
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[ noun ] a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
Synonyms Examples "in England they call a period a stop" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (geology) a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
Synonyms Examples "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods" |
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[ noun ] (sport,ice hockey) one of three periods of play in hockey games
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[ noun ] the end or completion of something
Examples "death put a period to his endeavors" "a change soon put a period to my tranquility" Related terms |
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