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Definition of period

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Period (n.) A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet..

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Paper :: Paper (n.) A printed sheet appearing periodically; a newspaper; a journal; as, a daily paper..

Subapical :: Subapennine (a.) Under, or at the foot of, the Apennine mountains; -- applied, in geology, to a series of Tertiary strata of the older Pliocene period..

Semester :: Semester (n.) A period of six months; especially, a term in a college or uneversity which divides the year into two terms..

Legion :: Legion (n.) A body of foot soldiers and cavalry consisting of different numbers at different periods, -- from about four thousand to about six thousand men, -- the cavalry being about one tenth..

Period :: Period (v. i.) To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] You may period upon this, that, etc..

Periodontal :: Periodontal (a.) Surrounding the teeth.

Young :: Young (superl.) Being in the first part, pr period, of growth; as, a young plant; a young tree..

Thomsen''s Disease :: Thomsen's disease () An affection apparently congenital, consisting in tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary muscles occurring after a period of muscular inaction..

Season :: Season (n.) A period of time not very long; a while; a time.

Huguenot :: Huguenot (n.) A French Protestant of the period of the religious wars in France in the 16th century.

Trimester :: Trimester (n.) A term or period of three months.

Exuviability :: Exuviability (n.) Capability of shedding the skin periodically.

Oestrual :: Oestrual (a.) Of or pertaining to sexual desire; -- mostly applied to brute animals; as, the oestrual period; oestrual influence..

Lune :: Lune (n.) A fit of lunacy or madness; a period of frenzy; a crazy or unreasonable freak.

Megrim :: Megrim (n.) A kind of sick or nevrous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head..

Hymnology :: Hymnology (n.) The hymns or sacred lyrics composed by authors of a particular country or period; as, the hymnology of the eighteenth century; also, the collective body of hymns used by any particular church or religious body; as, the Anglican hymnology..

Bulletin :: Bulletin (n.) A periodical publication, especially one containing the proceeding of a society..

Periodicity :: Periodicity (n.) The quality or state of being periodical, or regularly recurrent; as, the periodicity in the vital phenomena of plants..

Puberty :: Puberty (n.) The period when a plant first bears flowers.

Orrery :: Orrery (n.) An apparatus which illustrates, by the revolution of balls moved by wheelwork, the relative size, periodic motions, positions, orbits, etc., of bodies in the solar system..