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period (English)

Etymology

From - periode|lang=enm, from - periode|lang=frm, from - periodus|lang=la, from - περίοδος|tr=períodos||circuit, period of time, path around|lang=grc, from - tr=peri-||around|lang=grc + - tr=hodós||way|lang=grc. Displaced native - - - |interval, period, season|lang=enm, from - - - tīd|time, period, season|lang=ang, - - - |age, period|lang=enm, from - - - |age, period of time|lang=ang.

Pronunciation

/ˈpɪərɪəd/

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Adjective

appropriate|Appropriate for a given historical era.

* 2004, Mark Singer, Somewhere in America, Houghton Mifflin, page 70

*: As the guests arrived — there were about a hundred, a majority in period attire — I began to feel out of place in my beige summer suit, white shirt, and red necktie. Then I got over it. I certainly didn't suffer from Confederate-uniform envy.

Interjection

North America

And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.

When I say "eat your dinner," it means "eat your dinner," period!

Synonyms

and nothing else

full_stop

Translations

and nothing else

Tjeckiska - a tečka

Dutch: punt_uit

French: point !, point_final !, point_barre!, un_point_c'est_tout !

Tyska - Punkt

Grekiska - τελεία

Hungarian: pont!

Makedonska - и точка

Polish: i_kropka!

Portugisiska - ponto final

, ponto

Russian: и_точка! (i tóčka)

Spanska - y punto

Swahili - majira

, vipindi, mda

Svenska - punkt

, och därmed basta

Noun

- 15th-19th c.

An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.

from 16th c.

* 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.3:

*: All comes to one period, whether man make an end of himselfe, or whether he endure it ....

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

from 16th c.

Food rationing continued in the post-war period.

A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole.

from 16th c.

* 1644,

John Milton

, Aeropagitica:

*: that such iron moulds as these shall have autority to knaw out the choicest periods of exquisitest books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that haples race of men, whose misfortune it is to have understanding.

- _|chiefly|North America The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).

A length of time.

from 17th c.

There was a period of confusion following the announcement.

You'll be on probation for a six-month period.

* {{quote-news

|year=2011 |date=December 14 |author=Steven Morris |title=Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave |work=Guardian |url= |page= |passage=Philip Miles, defending, said: "This was a single instance, there was no allegation of continuing behaviour over a long period of time."}}

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.

A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.

17th-19th c.

* 1720, Alexander Pope, translating Homer, Iliad, Book IV (note 125):

*: The Death of Patroclus was the most eminent Period; and consequently the most proper Time for such Games.

Female menstruation.

from 18th c.

When she is on her period she can be more disagreeable than usual

A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.

from 19th c.

This is one of the last paintings Picasso created during his Blue Period.

Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.

from 19th c.

I have math class in second period.

- _|North America Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.

from 19th c.

Gretzky scored in the last minute of the second period.

A row in the periodic_table of the elements.

from 19th c.

A Drosophila gene which gene_product is involved in regulation of the circadian_rhythm

* {{quote-journal

|title=Antibodies to the period gene product of drosophila reveal diverse tissue distribution and rhythmic changes in the visual system |volume=1 |issue=2 |page=141 |url= |year=1988 |date=1 April |journal=Neuron |passage=Polyclonal antibodies were prepared against the period gene product, which influences biological rhythms in D. melanogaster, by using small synthetic peptides from the per sequence as immunogens.}}

* 2009 {{cite web

|date=20 November 2009 |url= |title=Gene Dmel\per |format=Gene Report (database record) |work=FlyBase |publisher=The FlyBase Consortium | language=en |accessdate=7 December |accessyear=2009 }}

two phrases (an antecedent_phrase|antecedent and a consequent_phrase|consequent phrase)

Derived terms

pseudoperiod, pseudoperiodic

Synonyms

- UK, Australia