- Look up
period or
periodic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Period may
refer to:
Period (punctuation) Era, a
length or span of time Menstruation, commonly...
- The Edo
period (江戸時代, Edo jidai), also
known as the
Tokugawa period (徳川時代,
Tokugawa jidai), is the
period between 1603 and 1868 in the
history of ****an...
- The
Sengoku period (****anese: 戦国時代, Hepburn:
Sengoku Jidai, lit. 'Warring
States period') is the
period in ****anese
history in
which civil wars and social...
- The
Heian period (平安時代,
Heian jidai) is the last
division of
classical ****anese history,
running from 794 to 1185. It
followed the Nara
period, beginning...
- The
orbital period (also
revolution period) is the
amount of time a
given astronomical object takes to
complete one
orbit around another object. In astronomy...
- In
classical antiquity, the ****enistic
period covers the time in
Mediterranean history after classical Greece,
between the
death of
Alexander the Great...
- In ****anese history, the Jōmon
period (縄文時代, Jōmon jidai) is the time
between c. 14,000 and 300 BC,
during which ****an was
inhabited by a
diverse hunter-gatherer...
- The
Kamakura period (鎌倉時代,
Kamakura jidai, 1185–1333) is a
period of ****anese
history that
marks the
governance by the
Kamakura shogunate,
officially established...
- The
postpartum (or postnatal)
period begins after childbirth and is
typically considered to last for six w****s. However,
there are
three distinct but continuous...
- The
Ubaid period (c. 5500–3700 BC) is a
prehistoric period of Mesopotamia. The name
derives from Tell al-'Ubaid
where the
earliest large excavation of...