Definitions for "Period"
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 division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet.
A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic.
One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.
A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence.
The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word.
A complete musical sentence.
one of three periods of play in hockey games
One of the three 20-minute playing segments of play in a regulation hockey game, or an overtime playing segment.
any quarter, half or overtime segment.
A group of eight measures containing two phrases of four measures.
A musical statement, made up of two or more phrases, and a cadence.
A period is a phrase consisting usually of an antecedent and consequent and totaling about 8 measures in length (though this varies depending on meter and tempo). Generally, the antecedent ends in a half cadence while the consequent ends in an authentic cadence. Frequently, the consequent strongly parallels the antecedent, even sharing most of the material save the final measures.
a horizontal row of elements in the periodic table.
A horizontal row in the periodic table, such as the second period which contains the elements Li, Be, B, C, N, O, F, and Ne.
The time period covered by the information in that row.
The common term for menstruation.
The days when menstruation is taking place.
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"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle
In mathematics, a period is a number that can be expressed as an integral of an algebraic function over an algebraic domain. The concept has been promoted by Maxim Kontsevich and Don Zagier.
textual unit composed of syntagms that have obligatory concordance relations.
Those things that have been proven to have existed within the timeframe of the living history organization.
the thing that needs to be underlined after the word "Id."
a messy, smelly, painful thing
Keywords:  menstrual, see
The menstrual period.
see menstrual period.
( Man .). A sub-division of rotation or conversion period.
(PE·ri·od). The general historical division of cultural domination on an ancient site. Identified by name, e.g., Iron Age, Hellenistic, Roman, etc. These period divisions may correspond to the strata and phases of this and any other particular site, but such correspondence is not automatic.
a chronological division
Group of phases that makes up the Prepatory, Competitive, Transition
The duration of one phase of play. In a senior game this is usually 20 minutes.
a dot followed by a whitespace
a small point or dot
pronounced " dot". See eight-dot-three, extension.
To put an end to.
the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
a statement having a beginning and an end
For purposes of the General Ledger system, period refers month. The system provides for thirteen periods of which twelve are used.
Keywords:  obs, conclude, come, may, you
To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc.
a multiple qualifying event seemingly without regard to whether the Medicare entitlement would have (or could have) been an initial qualifying event
Keywords:  decimal, mark
a decimal mark
Keywords:  womb, bleeding, monthly, vagina
a monthly bleeding from the womb through the vagina
Keywords:  song, recognize, symbol, foreign, even
a foreign symbol and therefore, even if the song is on the card, it will not recognize it
Keywords:  friend, best, girl, single
a single girl's best friend
Keywords:  valid, url, character
a valid character in a URL
Keywords:  illegal, character, created, file, name
an illegal character in a file name so no file is created
Period usually refers to the number of bars used in the calculation of technical analysis studies.
Keywords:  adoption, process
an adoption process
Keywords:  series, definite, years
a definite series of years
a regular expression pattern for a single character
Keywords:  agreed, paying, back, loan
The period that has been agreed for paying back the loan.
Keywords:  term, see
See Term.
450 ~l60l AD