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period
English
- 🔊 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”
- 🔊 the end or completion of something“death put a period to his endeavors”
- 🔊 a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed“ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods”
- 🔊 (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
- 🔊 the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
- 🔊 an amount of time“a time period of 30 years”
- 🔊 the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause“the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation”
Spanish
- 🔊 ciclo period
- 🔊 fase period
- 🔊 plazo period, phase
- 🔊 achaque period, menstruation
- 🔊 punto period, end of story
- 🔊 periodo period, menstrual cycle