Definition of Period

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Period

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.

A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic.

One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.

The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion.

A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence.

The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word.

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.

The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission.

A complete musical sentence.

To put an end to.

To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc.

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Period Quotations

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
Winston Churchill

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.
George Carlin

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our favorite holding period is forever.
Warren Buffett

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
Bill Gates

Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.
Michael Jackson

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie

Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
Ted Turner

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.
Brian Tracy

Period Translations

period in Afrikaans is punt
period in Danish is punkt
period in Dutch is periode, tijdvak
period in Finnish is piste
period in German is Zeitraum, Periode
period in Italian is periodo
period in Norwegian is punkt
period in Swedish is skede, termin, tid

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