Some articles on period:
... and Northern Dynasties (Chinese 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 ...
... 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 ... Persian, 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ... More than 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 ...
... 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), with temperatures rarely rising above 27 °C (80.6 ... The average wettest period is around March with on average 263 mm (10.4 in) ...
More definitions of "period":
- (noun): A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed.
Synonyms: geological period
- (noun): A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations.
Example: "In England they call a period a stop"
Synonyms: point, full stop, stop, full point
- (noun): One of three periods of play in hockey games.
- (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): The interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon.
- (noun): The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause.
Synonyms: menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, flow
- (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
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)
“Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion.”
—Anonymous. Quoted in Richard Chevenix Trench, On the Study of Words, lecture 1 (1858)
“We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)