Period

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Period means different things.

  • A period is a type of punctuation mark, also called a full stop.
  • Period is a time in history: The book is from the Victorian period.
  • A period (menstruation) is the time every month when a woman of child-bearing age bleeds from her vagina.
  • A period is the time it takes to finish one cycle of something that happens again and again. The Earth's sidereal period is about 365 days.
  • A period is the time it takes to play 1/3 of an ice hockey game.
  • A period is a row in the chemical periodic table.
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