Definition of Period. Meaning of Period. Synonyms of Period

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Definition of Period

Period
Period Pe"ri*od, v. t. To put an end to. [Obs.] --Shak.
Period
Period Pe"ri*od, v. i. To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] ``You may period upon this, that,' etc. --Felthman.

Meaning of Period from wikipedia

- Look up period or periodic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Period may refer to: Era, a length or span of time Full stop (or period), a punctuation...
- The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai) or Tokugawa period (徳川時代, Tokugawa jidai) is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of ****an, when ****an was...
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- 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 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 Vedic period, or the Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic...
- The Migration Period, also known as the Barbarian Invasions, was a period in European history marked by large-scale migrations that saw the fall of the...
- 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...
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