DICTOMETER

PERIODS

1. Synonyms:
   • Time period
   • Period of time
   • Period
   Definitions:
   • an amount of time
   Examples:
   • A time period of 30 years
   • Hastened the period of time of his recovery
   • Picasso's blue period
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Period
   Definitions:
   • the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Period
   Definitions:
   • (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Period
   • Geological period
   Definitions:
   • a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
   Examples:
   • Ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Period
   Definitions:
   • the end or completion of something
   Examples:
   • Death put a period to his endeavors
   • A change soon put a period to my tranquility
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Menstruation
   • Menses
   • Menstruum
   • Catamenia
   • Period
   • Flow
   Definitions:
   • the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
   Examples:
   • The women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation
   • A woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped
   
   
7. Synonyms:
   • Period
   • Point
   • Full stop
   • Stop
   • Full point
   Definitions:
   • a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
   Examples:
   • In England they call a period a stop