Definition of period

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Period (n.) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals..

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Print :: Print (n.) A printed publication, more especially a newspaper or other periodical..
Periodontal :: Periodontal (a.) Surrounding the teeth.
Babyhood :: Babyhood (n.) The state or period of infancy.
Late :: Late (v.) Far advanced toward the end or close; as, a late hour of the day; a late period of life..
Decade :: Decade (n.) A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy..
Author :: Author (n.) The editor of a periodical.
Decennial :: Decennial (a.) Consisting of ten years; happening every ten years; as, a decennial period; decennial games..
Labyrinthodon :: Labyrinthodon (n.) A genus of very large fossil amphibians, of the Triassic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta. Called also Mastodonsaurus..
Periodicalist :: Periodicalist (n.) One who publishes, or writes for, a periodical..
Augurship :: Augurship (n.) The office, or period of office, of an augur..
Catskill Period :: Catskill period () The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology..
Quarantine :: Quarantine (n.) The period of forty days during which the widow had the privilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband died seized.
Scandium :: Scandium (n.) A rare metallic element of the boron group, whose existence was predicted under the provisional name ekaboron by means of the periodic law, and subsequently discovered by spectrum analysis in certain rare Scandinavian minerals (euxenite and gadolinite). It has not yet been isolated. Symbol Sc. Atomic weight 44..
Intermittent :: Intermittent (a.) Coming and going at intervals; alternating; recurrent; periodic; as, an intermittent fever..
Ticketing :: Ticketing (n.) A periodical sale of ore in the English mining districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers.
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..
Point :: Point (n.) A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion..
Preadamitic :: Preadamitic (a.) Existing or occurring before Adam; preadamic; as, preadamitic periods..
Antique :: Antique (a.) Old, as respects the present age, or a modern period of time; of old fashion; antiquated; as, an antique robe..
Exuviability :: Exuviability (n.) Capability of shedding the skin periodically.
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