Some articles on period:
... The climate is tropical with a distinct warm period (December-April), during which the temperatures rise above 32 °C (89.6 °F), and a cooler period (May-November ... The average wettest period is around March with on average 263 mm (10.4 in) ...
... Turkish literature during the Ottoman period, particularly Ottoman Divan poetry, was heavily influenced by Persian, including the adoption of poetic ... The literary and official language during the Ottoman Empire period (c ... and Arabic that differed considerably and was largely unintelligible to the period's everyday Turkish known as kaba Türkçe or "rough Turkish", spoken by the less-educated lower and also ...
... Norway's coastline rose from glaciation with the end of the last glacial period about 12,000 BC ... The first immigration took place during this period as the Norwegian coast offered good conditions for sealing, fishing and hunting ... The first farming and thus the start of the Neolithic period, began ca ...
... 南北朝 pinyin Nánběicháo) was a period in the history of China that lasted from 420 to 589 ... The period saw large-scale migration of Han Chinese people to the lands south of the Yangtze River ... During this period the process of sinicization accelerated among the non-Chinese arrivals in the north and among the aboriginal people in the south ...
... During the Archaic period (10,500–2,800 years ago), American Indians adapted to local environments and ecosystems, slowly becoming more sedentary as populations increased. 3,000 years ago, during the Late Archaic period, American Indians in Iowa began utilizing domesticated plants ... The subsequent Woodland period saw an increased reliance on agriculture and social complexity, with increased use of mounds, ceramics, and specialized subsistence ...
More definitions of "period":
- (noun): An amount of time.
Example: "A time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
Synonyms: time period, period of time
- (noun): One of three periods of play in hockey games.
- (noun): The interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon.
- (noun): The end or completion of something.
Example: "Death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
- (noun): A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed.
Synonyms: geological period
- (noun): A stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time.
Example: "A novel from the Victorian period"
Synonyms: historic period, historical period
- (noun): The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause.
Synonyms: menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, flow
Famous quotes containing the word period:
“A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavour to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision—whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment.”
—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)