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Grep of noun period cambrian period carboniferous period cretaceous period devonian period duty period fertile period final period first period geological period gestation period glacial period historic period historical period incubation period jurassic period latency period latent period lower carboniferous period lunar time period lunch period missippian period neonatal period orbit period ordovician period overtime period pennsylvanian period period period of play period of time period piece periodic acid periodic apnea of the newborn periodic breathing periodic event periodic law periodic sentence periodic table periodical periodical cicada periodicity periodontal disease periodontia periodontics periodontist periodontitis permian period playing period precambrian period quaternary period refractory period rest period safe period second period silurian period tertiary period third period time period triassic period upper carboniferous period Overview of noun period The noun period has 9 senses (first 9 from tagged texts) 1. (656) time period, period, period of time -- (an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of his recovery") 2. (190) period -- (one of three periods of play in hockey games) 3. (157) period, historic period, historical period -- (a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period") 4. (54) period -- (the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon) 5. (37) period -- (a time of life characterized as a distinct phase; "Picasso's blue period"; "it was the happy period of my life") 6. (3) menstruation, menses, catamenia, period, flow -- (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) 7. (3) period, point, full stop, stop, full point -- (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") 8. (2) period, geological period -- (a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods") 9. (1) period -- (the end or completion of something "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility") Overview of noun period The noun period has 9 senses (first 9 from tagged texts) 1. (656) time period, period, period of time -- (an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of his recovery") 2. (190) period -- (one of three periods of play in hockey games) 3. (157) period, historic period, historical period -- (a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period") 4. (54) period -- (the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon) 5. (37) period -- (a time of life characterized as a distinct phase; "Picasso's blue period"; "it was the happy period of my life") 6. (3) menstruation, menses, catamenia, period, flow -- (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) 7. (3) period, point, full stop, stop, full point -- (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") 8. (2) period, geological period -- (a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods") 9. (1) 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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