• 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 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
• an amount of time; "a time Period of 30 years"; "hastened the Period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso''s blue Period"
• the end or completion of something; "death put a Period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a Period to my tranquility"
• a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological Periods"
• one of three Periods of play in hockey games
• the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
• a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian Period"

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