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Periods

A length of time.

📖 Definitions of "Periods"

noun
  1. 1

    A length of time.

    "There was a period of confusion following the announcement."

  2. 2

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

    "Food rationing continued in the post-war period."

  3. 3

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

  4. 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.

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