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period


period - noun

  • an amount of time
  • the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
  • (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
  • a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
  • the end or completion of something
  • the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
  • a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

    • period - thesaurus

    catamenia   flow   menses   menstruation   menstruum   point   stop  

    Scrabble score for period

    p is 3 e is 1 r is 1 i is 1 o is 1 d is 2
    Scrabble score = 9

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