Definition of period

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Period (n.) 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..

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Night :: Night (n.) A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep..
Subcarbureted :: Subcarboniferous (n.) The Subcarboniferous period or formation.
Antiperiodic :: Antiperiodic (n.) A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers..
Lustrum :: Lustrum (n.) A lustration or purification, especially the purification of the whole Roman people, which was made by the censors once in five years. Hence: A period of five years..
Author :: Author (n.) The editor of a periodical.
Term :: Term (n.) A fixed period of time; a prescribed duratio.
Periodically :: Periodically (adv.) In a periodical manner.
Newsroom :: Newsroom (n.) A room where news is collected and disseminated, or periodicals sold; a reading room supplied with newspapers, magazines, etc..
Bulletin :: Bulletin (n.) A periodical publication, especially one containing the proceeding of a society..
Tide :: Tide (prep.) Time; period; season.
Tidal :: Tidal (a.) Of or pertaining to tides; caused by tides; having tides; periodically rising and falling, or following and ebbing; as, tidal waters..
Megrim :: Megrim (n.) A kind of sick or nevrous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head..
Eventful :: Eventful (a.) Full of, or rich in, events or incidents; as, an eventful journey; an eventful period of history; an eventful period of life..
Youngly :: Youngly (adv.) In a young manner; in the period of youth; early in life.
Archaeolithic :: Archaeolithic (a.) Of or pertaining to the earliest Stone age; -- applied to a prehistoric period preceding the Paleolithic age.
Epitasis :: Epitasis (n.) The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.
Dingo :: Dingo (n.) A wild dog found in Australia, but supposed to have introduced at a very early period. It has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and a reddish brown color..
Adolescence :: Adolescence (n.) The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals..
Tide :: Tide (prep.) The period of twelve hours.
Period :: Period (n.) The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion..
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