|
Period or periodic may refer to:
Language and literature
- Full stop, a punctuation mark indicating the end of a sentence or phrase
- Periodic sentence, a sentence that is not grammatically complete until its end
- The final book in Dennis Cooper's George Miles cycle of novels
Science and mathematics
- Menstruation, a phase of the menstrual cycle in which the uterine lining is shed
- Orbital period, a concept in astronomy
- Period (gene), a gene in Drosophila involved in regulating circadian rhythm
- Period (geology), a subdivision of geologic time
- Period (number), a concept in mathematics
- Period (periodic table), a horizontal row of the periodic table
- Periodic acid, an oxoacid of iodine
- In physics, period the reciprocal of frequency
Other meanings
- Period (music), a concept in musical composition
- Periodicity, the quality of occurring at regular intervals
- For historical period, see List of time periods
See also
A full stop or period (sometimes stop, full point, decimal point, or dot) is the Punctuation mark commonly placed at the A periodic sentence (also called a period) is a sentence that is not grammatically complete until its end Dennis Cooper (born 1953 is a novelist poet critic editor blogger and Performance artist. See also "Mensuration" a term sometimes used to describe Measurement, particularly in the context of Forestry. The orbital period is the time taken for a given object to make one complete Orbit about another object Period ( per) is a gene in Drosophilia which encodes a protein PER, regulating Circadian rhythm. In Mathematics, a period is a Number that can be expressed as an Integral of an Algebraic function over an algebraic domain In the Periodic table of the elements, a period is a horizontal row of the table Periodic acid is HIO4 or H5IO6 In dilute solution periodic acid exists as H+ and IO4− Frequency is a measure of the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit Time. A period is a phrase consisting usually of an antecedent and consequent and totaling about 8 measures in length (though this varies depending on meter and tempo Periodicity is the quality of occurring at regular intervals or periods (in Time or Space) and can occur in different contexts A Clock marks The categorization of Time into discrete named blocks is called Periodization. Periodization is the attempt to categorize or divide Time into discrete named blocksDictionary
period
-adjective
- Appropriate for a given historical era.
-interjection
- (mostly North America) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
-noun
- (mostly North America) Punctuation mark ending a sentence or marking an abbreviation.
- A length of time.
- An epoch, era, time in history or in a person's life.
- A specific length of time that an activity (such as a game or a school day) is conventionally divided into.
- The minimum interval during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.
- Female menstruation.
- (chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.
Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic