How to pronounce “period”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A length of time. [from 17th c.]
• A length of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era. [from 16th c.]
• (now chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
• (figurative) A decisive end to something; a stop.
• 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. [from 17th c.]
• (euphemistic) Female menstruation; an episode of this. [from 18th c.]
• A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc. [from 19th c.]
• Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity. [from 19th c.]
• (sports, chiefly ice hockey) Each of the intervals, typically three, of which a game is divided. [from 19th c.]
• (sports, chiefly ice hockey) One or more additional intervals to decide a tied game, an overtime period.
• (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course. [15th–19th c.]
• (archaic) An end or conclusion; the final point of a process, a state, an event, etc. [from 16th c.]
• (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole. [from 16th c.]
• (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage. [17th–19th c.]
• (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements. [from 19th c.]
• (geology) A geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years; a subdivision of an era, and subdivided into epochs.
• (genetics) A Drosophila gene, the gene product of which is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
• (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
• (mathematics) The length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length.
• [Adjective]
• Designating anything from a given historical era.
• Evoking, or appropriate for, a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate costumes and scenery.
• Menstrual.
• [Interjection]
• (chiefly Canada, US) That's final; that's the end of the matter (analogous to a period ending a sentence); end of story.
• [Verb]
• (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
• (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.
• (colloquial) To menstruate; to excrete menstrual blood.

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