periods
Pronunciation:
noun
Definitions
A length of time.
Example: There was a period of confusion following the announcement.
A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
Example: Food rationing continued in the post-war period.
The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
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.