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Meaning of period

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  period
      n 1: an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened
           the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue
           period" [syn: {time period}, {period of time}, {period}]
      2: the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly
         repeating phenomenon
      3: (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is
         divided in hockey games
      4: a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks
         formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological
         periods" [syn: {period}, {geological period}]
      5: the end or completion of something; "death put a period to
         his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my
         tranquility"
      6: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant
         women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and
         subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take
         the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "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"--
         Aristotle [syn: {menstruation}, {menses}, {menstruum},
         {catamenia}, {period}, {flow}]
      7: 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" [syn: {period}, {point},
         {full stop}, {stop}, {full point}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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