period

• To put an end to
• the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
• a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
• a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
• an amount of time
• the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
• (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
• the end or completion of something
• A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies
• A stated and recurring interval of time
• One of the great divisions of geological time
• The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act
• A complete sentence, from one full stop to another
• The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word
• 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
• The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission
• A complete musical sentence
• To come to a period

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