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Meaning of periods

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

periods

Pronunciation:

noun

Definitions

  1. A length of time.

    Example: There was a period of confusion following the announcement.

  2. A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.

    Example: Food rationing continued in the post-war period.

  3. The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).

  4. The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.