period Définition - Anglais Dictionnaire | period Explications et Prononciations

A length of time.
1. There was a period of confusion following the announcement. ‎
2. You'll be on probation for a six-month period. ‎

A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.

(now chiefly Canada, US) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).

Female menstruation.

A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.

Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.

(chiefly Canada, US) Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.

OBS (medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.

An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.

OBS A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.

(chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.

(geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix: Geologic timescale.

Polyclonal antibodies were prepared against the period gene product, which influences biological rhythms in D. melanogaster, by using small synthetic peptides from the per sequence as immunogens.

(music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).

(mathematics) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in recurring decimals.

To put an end to.

Adjectif

(of a film, or play, or similar) Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate costumes and scenery.

Interjection

(chiefly Canada, US) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
1. When I say "eat your dinner," it means "eat your dinner," period!

Plus d'exemples

Utilisé au milieu de la phrase
- His papers at this period contain a mass of very unedifying and uninteresting documents  [ …] .
- This great astronomer had discovered the orbitational periods of Jupiter and Mars.
- So when leaders keep around C players (or the warm bodies), the result is almost always worse than having nobody for a short period of time.
Utilisé dans la fin de la phrase
- Throughout the first, second and early third instars, Drosophila larvae exhibit photophobicity and remain buried in their food source throughout the critical feeding period.
- Final recovery, respot and servicing may be conducted after this period.
- One of the architectural arts is acrography or plaster work which has had its own form and style in each historical period.

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