period lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations "in England they call a period a stop"
• the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation" "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped" --Hippocrates "the semen begin..."
• the end or completion of something "death put a period to his endeavors" "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
• a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
• the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
• a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time "a novel from the Victorian period"
• a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
• (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
• an amount of time "a time period of 30 years" "hastened the period of time of his recovery" "Picasso's blue period"