Definition of period

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Period (n.) One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology..

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Alabama Period :: Alabama period () A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic..
Quadrennial :: Quadrennial (a.) Comprising four years; as, a quadrennial period..
Miocene :: Miocene (n.) The Miocene period. See Chart of Geology.
Age :: Age (n.) A great period in the history of the Earth.
Athenaeum :: Athenaeum (n.) A building or an apartment where a library, periodicals, and newspapers are kept for use..
Permian :: Permian (a.) Belonging or relating to the period, and also to the formation, next following the Carboniferous, and regarded as closing the Carboniferous age and Paleozoic era..
Variety :: Variety (n.) An individual, or group of individuals, of a species differing from the rest in some one or more of the characteristics typical of the species, and capable either of perpetuating itself for a period, or of being perpetuated by artificial means; hence, a subdivision, or peculiar form, of a species..
Youth :: Youth (n.) The part of life that succeeds to childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to manhood..
Quarter :: Quarter (n.) The fourth part of the moon's period, or monthly revolution; as, the first quarter after the change or full..
Section :: Section (n.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase..
Early :: Early (adv.) Coming in the first part of a period of time, or among the first of successive acts, events, etc..
Neptune :: Neptune (n.) The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years..
Subelongate :: Subeditor (n.) An assistant editor, as of a periodical or journal..
Interstition :: Interstition (n.) An intervening period of time; interval.
Roll :: Roll (v. i.) To perform a periodical revolution; to move onward as with a revolution; as, the rolling year; ages roll away..
Period :: Period (v. t.) To put an end to.
Retreat :: Retreat (n.) A period of several days of withdrawal from society to a religious house for exclusive occupation in the duties of devotion; as, to appoint or observe a retreat..
Flash :: Flash (n.) The time during which a flash is visible; an instant; a very brief period.
Orrery :: Orrery (n.) An apparatus which illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system..
Nilometer :: Nilometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the rise of water in the Nile during its periodical flood.
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