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Period

nounverified·updated May 18, 2026

a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

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the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause

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an amount of time

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the end or completion of something

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a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed

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(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games

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the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon

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Variants

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geological periodmenstruationperiod of timestoptime period
plural
Periods
possessive
Period's
pluralpossessive
Periods'