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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 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" an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso''s blue period" 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 |
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