Meaning of 'period'

noun

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"

Synonyms: stop

noun

the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause

Synonyms: menstruation

noun

an amount of time

Example: "a time period of 30 years"

Synonyms: time period period of time

noun

the end or completion of something

Example: "Death put a period to my endeavors."

noun

a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed

Example: "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"

Synonyms: geological period

noun

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

noun

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