periods

Meanings

Noun

• an amount of time
• the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
• (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
• a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
  • "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
• the end or completion of something
• the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; ; --Hippocrates; --Aristotle
• a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
• plural of period

Synonyms

catamenia, flow, full point, full stop, geological period, menses, menstruation, menstruum, period, period of time, point, stop, time period