Usually means: Duration between recurring, similar events.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. period: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. period: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. period: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. period: Collins English Dictionary
  5. period: Vocabulary.com
  6. Period, period, the period: Wordnik
  7. period: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. period: Wiktionary
  9. period: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. period: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. period: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. The period, period: Dictionary.com
  13. period: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. period: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Period (Another American Lie), Period (Kontsevich and Zagier), Period (chemistry), Period (disambiguation), Period (gene), Period (geology), Period (mathematics), Period (mixtape), Period (music), Period (periodic table), Period (physics), Period (punctuation), Period (rhetoric), Period (school), Period: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Period: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. period: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. period: Rhymezone
  19. period: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. period: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Period (punctuation): American-Britih Dictionary
  22. period, the period: Free Dictionary
  23. period: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. The period, period: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. period: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. period: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Period (disambiguation), Period (grammar), Period (punctuation), period: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Period (disambiguation), Period (feminine), Period (mathematics), Period (physics), period: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Period (menstrual): Merck Manuals
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Period (disambiguation), Period (feminine), Period (gene), Period (physics), period: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. period: Idioms

Science (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Period: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  4. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Period: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  6. Period: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  7. Period: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  8. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  9. On-Line Biology Book: GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  10. Period: Extragalactic Astronomy
  11. period, period, period, period: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  12. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. period, period: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. period: Electronics
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. PERIOD: NOISE CONTROL TERMS
  6. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  7. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  8. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  9. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  10. Electrical Engineering Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See perioding as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A length of time.
noun:  A length of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.
noun:  (now chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
noun:  (figurative) A decisive end to something; a stop.
noun:  The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.
noun:  (euphemistic) Female menstruation; an episode of this.
noun:  The set of symptoms associated with menstruation, even if not accompanied by menstruation; an episode of these symptoms.
noun:  A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.
noun:  Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.
noun:  (sports, chiefly ice hockey) Each of the intervals, typically three, of which a game is divided.
noun:  (sports, chiefly ice hockey) One or more additional intervals to decide a tied game, an overtime period.
noun:  (obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.
noun:  (archaic) An end or conclusion; the final point of a process, a state, an event, etc.
noun:  (rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole.
noun:  (obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.
noun:  (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
noun:  (geology) A geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years; a subdivision of an era, and subdivided into epochs.
noun:  (genetics) A Drosophila gene, the gene product of which is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.
noun:  (music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).
noun:  (mathematics) The length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length.
adjective:  Designating anything from a given historical era.
adjective:  Evoking, or appropriate for, a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate costumes and scenery.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To come to a period; to conclude.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive, rare) To put an end to.
verb:  (colloquial) To menstruate; to excrete menstrual blood.

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