
3.(Geol.) One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.
Evils which shall never end till eternity hath a period.
- Jer. Taylor.
This is the period of my ambition.
- Shak.
5.(Rhet.) A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence.
6.(Print.) The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word.
7.(Math.) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals.
8.(Med.) The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission.
9.(Mus.) A complete musical sentence.
The period
v. t.1.To put an end to.
v. i.1.To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc.
2.period - one of three periods of play in hockey games
3.period - a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period"
4.period - the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
7.period - a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
8.period - the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
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