period

Letters that make period

o, d, e, p, r, i are letters that make 'period'

Words within period

ER, OD, pe, RI, Rio, Io, peri, Er are words within 'period'

Anagrams of period

dopier is an anagram of 'period'

Words created by adding a letter to the beginning or end of period

periods is a word created by adding a letter to 'period'


7 possible definitions for 'period'

Period as "a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed"

Under this definition, period is a noun and has the following properties:

Synonyms

geological period has the same meaning as period

period as a type

'period' can be a type of geological time, geologic time.

Types of period

ice age, glacial period, glacial epoch are types of 'period'.

Instances of period

Quaternary, Quaternary period, Age of Man, Tertiary, Tertiary period, Cretaceous period, Jurassic period, Triassic period, Permian period, Carboniferous, Carboniferous period, Pennsylvanian period, Upper Carboniferous, Upper Carboniferous period, Mississippian, Lower Carboniferous, Lower Carboniferous period, Devonian, Devonian period, Age of Fishes, Silurian, Silurian period, Ordovician, Ordovician period, Permian, Pennsylvanian, Missippian period, Cambrian period, Jurassic, Triassic, Cambrian, Cretaceous. are instances of 'period'

period as a part

'period' can be a part of era, geological era.

Parts of period

epoch is a part of period.

Example of period used within this context

"ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"


Period as "an amount of time"

Under this definition, period is a noun and has the following properties:

Synonyms

time period, period of time have the same meaning as 'period'

period as a type

'period' can be a type of fundamental quantity, fundamental measure.

Types of period

school, year, year, year, Olympiad, time off, trial period, test period, time frame, hours, downtime, uptime, work time, travel time, times, elapsed time, duration, week, calendar week, field day, lifetime, life-time, bimillennium, bimillenary, shelf life, puerperium, time of life, calendar day, civil day, daytime, morn, morning time, forenoon, nighttime, hebdomad, fortnight, two weeks, weekend, Indian summer, Saint Martin's summer, mid-June, mid-May, school day, twelvemonth, yr, semester, bimester, quinquennium, quarter-century, month, calendar month, mid-January, mid-February, mid-March, mid-April, mid-August, mid-October, mid-November, time limit, trimester, silly season, Golden Age, silver age, bronze age, iron age, great year, Platonic year, regulation time, extra time, time of year, dog days, canicule, canicular days, midwinter, long time, long run, prehistoric culture, early days, half-life, lunar time period, multistage, peacetime, wartime, duty tour, indiction, prohibition era, incubation period, rainy day, noviciate, heyday, running time, clotting time, question time, real time, drought, term of enlistment, lifespan, night, half-century, phase of the moon, season, age, time, sleep, term of a contract, blossom, usance, bout, hospitalization, midweek, continuance, millennium, past, millenary, life, occupation, lactation, night, dark, festival, daylight, day, night, evening, week, eve, schooltime, day, decade, century, decennary, decennium, quadrennium, lustrum, quarter, mid-July, term, hour, overtime, season, season, years, long haul, drouth, epoch, era, generation, reign, run, youth, evening, dawn, peak, nap, lease, tide, half life, phase, watch, hitch, air alert, novitiate, efflorescence, bloom, flower, tour, honeymoon, tour of duty, prime, flush, enlistment, study hall, window, real time, night, life, life, time, prohibition, stage, morning, mid-September, mid-December, prehistory are types of 'period'.

Instances of period

Iron Age, Stone Age, Eolithic Age, Eolithic, Paleolithic Age, Paleolithic, Palaeolithic, Lower Paleolithic, Middle Paleolithic, Mesolithic Age, New Stone Age, Great Schism, Mesolithic, Epipaleolithic, Bronze Age, Upper Paleolithic, Neolithic Age, Neolithic. are instances of 'period'

Example of period used within this context

"a time period of 30 years", "hastened the period of time of his recovery", "Picasso's blue period"


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

Under this definition, period is a noun and has the following properties:

period as a type

'period' can be a type of division, section, part.

period as a part

'period' can be a part of period of play, playing period, play.

period as a category

'period' can be a category of ice hockey, hockey, hockey game.


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

Under this definition, period is a noun and has the following properties:

period as a type

'period' can be a type of time interval, interval.

Types of period

orbit period is a type of period.

Derivatives of period

periodic, periodical are derivatives of 'period'.


Period as "the end or completion of something"

Under this definition, period is a noun and has the following properties:

period as a type

'period' can be a type of ending, end.

period Usage

'period' can be a useage of trope, figure of speech, figure, image.

Example of period used within this context

"death put a period to his endeavors", "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"


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

Under this definition, period is a noun and has the following properties:

Synonyms

menstruation, flow, menses, menstruum, catamenia have the same meaning as 'period'

period as a type

'period' can be a type of discharge, emission, expelling.

Types of period

oligomenorrhea, menorrhagia, hypermenorrhea are types of 'period'.

Derivatives of period

menstruate, menstrual, catamenial, flow are derivatives of 'period'.


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

Under this definition, period is a noun and has the following properties:

Synonyms

stop, point, full point, full stop have the same meaning as 'period'

period as a type

'period' can be a type of punctuation, punctuation mark.

Types of period

suspension point is a type of period.

Derivatives of period

point are derivatives of 'period'.

Example of period used within this context

"in England they call a period a stop"



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