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noun : PERIODS
Source:WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" ;
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2. (
) the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon ;
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3. (
) (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games ;
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4. (
) a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods" ;
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5. (
) 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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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";
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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" ;
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