period
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Synonyms for period
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Synonyms for period
a specific length of time characterized by the occurrence of certain conditions or events
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Synonyms for period
an amount of time
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- fundamental measure
- fundamental quantity
- test period
- trial period
- time frame
- hours
- downtime
- uptime
- work time
- time off
- bout
- hospitalization
- travel time
- times
- time
- elapsed time
- duration
- continuance
- calendar week
- week
- midweek
- field day
- lifespan
- lifetime
- life-time
- life
- millennium
- millenary
- bimillenary
- bimillennium
- occupation
- past
- shelf life
- puerperium
- lactation
- time of life
- calendar day
- civil day
- festival
- daylight
- daytime
- day
- forenoon
- morn
- morning
- morning time
- night
- nighttime
- dark
- eve
- evening
- hebdomad
- fortnight
- two weeks
- weekend
- Indian summer
- Saint Martin's summer
- year
- schooltime
- school day
- school
- twelvemonth
- yr
- semester
- bimester
- Olympiad
- lustrum
- decade
- decennary
- decennium
- century
- quadrennium
- quinquennium
- half-century
- quarter-century
- quarter
- phase of the moon
- calendar month
- month
- mid-January
- mid-February
- mid-March
- mid-April
- mid-May
- mid-June
- mid-July
- mid-August
- mid-September
- mid-October
- mid-November
- mid-December
- time limit
- term
- trimester
- hour
- silly season
- Golden Age
- silver age
- bronze age
- iron age
- great year
- Platonic year
- regulation time
- extra time
- overtime
- time of year
- season
- canicular days
- canicule
- dog days
- midwinter
- long time
- years
- age
- long run
- long haul
- drouth
- drought
- epoch
- era
- generation
- prehistoric culture
- prehistory
- reign
- run
- early days
- youth
- dawn
- nap
- sleep
- term of a contract
- lease
- half life
- half-life
- lunar time period
- tide
- phase
- stage
- multistage
- watch
- peacetime
- wartime
- duty tour
- enlistment
- hitch
- term of enlistment
- tour of duty
- tour
- honeymoon
- indiction
- prohibition era
- prohibition
- incubation period
- rainy day
- noviciate
- novitiate
- efflorescence
- flush
- heyday
- peak
- prime
- blossom
- flower
- bloom
- running time
- clotting time
- air alert
- question time
- real time
- study hall
- usance
- window
the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
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(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 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
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