Period - Language and Literature

Language and Literature

  • Period (punctuation), a punctuation mark indicating the end of a sentence or phrase, specifically, a dot.
  • Periodic sentence, a sentence that is not grammatically complete until its end
  • The final book in Dennis Cooper's George Miles cycle of novels

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