Periods

What do we mean by periods?

A length of time.

A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.

The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).

The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.

Female menstruation.

A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.

Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.

Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.

The length of time for a disease to run its course.

An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.

A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole.

A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.

A row in the periodic table of the elements.

A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix: Geologic timescale.

A Drosophila gene, the gene product of which is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.

Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).

The length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length.

End point, conclusion.

Words that are spelled similarly to periods:
periods, period, periode, periodo.

Words that rhyme with periods:
myriads.

Adjectives that are often used to describe periods:
long, different, short, longer, extended, earlier, various, prolonged, certain, brief, later, shorter, historical, early, critical, successive, year, peak, subsequent, previous, distinct, considerable, dry, minute, menstrual, limited, regular, lengthy, future, geological, earliest, hour, frequent, glacial, day, sub, consecutive, slack, developmental, irregular, indefinite, definite, month, colonial, difficult, transitional, protracted, occasional, respective, alternate, monthly, refractory, sensitive, wet, week, remote, historic, intermittent, prior, fallow, medieval, variable, warm, busy, interglacial, quiet.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective periods:
english, fig.

Words that sound like periods:
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