period

n. ஊழி, வானியற்பொருத்தங்கள் திரும்பத்திரும்ப நிகழ்வதால் குறிக்கப்படும் காலக்கூறு, கோள்வட்டம், வானக்கோள் சுழற்சியின் காலம், பருவம், நோய் நீட்டிக்குங்காலம், காலவட்டம், வரலாறு-வாழ்க்கை முதலியவற்றின் பகுதி, காலக்கூறு, முழுவாக்கியம், வாக்கியத்தின் கடைசியிலுள்ள நிறுத்தம், வாசகமுழு நிறுத்தம்,(கண.) முற்றுப்புள்ளிக்குறி, பதின்பகுப்புத் தனிக்குறிப்புப்பகுதி, குறிப்பிட்ட காலப்பகுதி, (பெ.) குறிப்பிட்ட காலப்பகுதி சார்ந்த, இறந்தகாலத்திற்குரிய பண்புடைய.

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Pe"ri*od, n. Etym: [L. periodus, Gr. période.] 1. A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet. 2. Hence: A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of years, months, days, or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic. How by art to make plants more lasting than their ordinary period. Bacon. 3. (Geol.) Defn: One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology. 4. The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion. Bacon. So spake the archangel Michael; then paused, As at the world's great period. Milton. Evils which shall never end till eternity hath a period. Jer. Taylor. This is the period of my ambition. Shak. 5. (Rhet.) Defn: A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence. "Devolved his rounded periods." Tennyson. Periods are beautiful when they are not too long. B. Johnson. Note: The period, according to Heyse, is a compound sentence consisting of a protasis and apodosis; according to Becker, it is the appropriate form for the coördinate propositions related by antithesis or causality. Gibbs. 6. (Print.) Defn: The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word. 7. (Math.) Defn: 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 circulating decimals. 8. (Med.) Defn: The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission. 9. (Mus.) Defn: A complete musical sentence. The period, the present or current time, as distinguished from all other times. Syn. -- Time; date; epoch; era; age; duration; limit; bound; end; conclusion; determination. Pe"ri*od, v. t. Defn: To put an end to. [Obs.] Shak. Pe"ri*od, v. i. Defn: To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc. Felthman.