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period

noun /piriəd/ 3 syllables 6 letters Scrabble 9 WWF 10
Definitions
noun

an amount of time

“a time period of 30 years”

noun

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

noun

a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed

“ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods”

noun

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”

noun

one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games

noun

the end or completion of something

“death put a period to his endeavors”

noun

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

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