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According to WordNet, the noun "period" has 7 sense(s).

115113229 an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period".

115258281 (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games.

115144178 the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility".

113513747 the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle.

115247518 a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods".

115289779 the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon.

106843520 a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop".


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