Alabama period
() A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic. |
Catskill period
() The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology. |
Champlain period
() A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period |
Chemung period
() A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology. |
Divorce
(n.) A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii. |
Divorce
(n.) The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband -- divorce a mensa et toro (/ thoro), "from bed board." |
Divorce
(n.) The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved. |
Divorce
(n.) Separation |
Divorce
(n.) That which separates. |
Divorce
(n.) To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially |
Divorce
(n.) To separate or disunite |
Divorce
(n.) To make away |
Gode-year
(n.) The venereal disease |
Hamilton period
() A subdivision of the Devonian system of America |
Leap year
() Bissextile |
New-year
(a.) Of or pertaining to, or suitable for, the commencement of the year |
New Year's Day
() the first day of a calendar year |
Niagara period
() A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of shale supporting a greater thickness of limestone, which is gradually undermined by the removal of the shale. See Chart of Geology. |
Period
(n.) 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 |
Period
(n.) A stated and recurring interval of time |
Period
(n.) One of the great divisions of geological time |
Period
(n.) The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act |
Period
(n.) A complete sentence, from one full stop to another |
Period
(n.) The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word. |
Period
(n.) 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. |
Period
(n.) The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission. |
Period
(n.) A complete musical sentence. |
Period
(v. t.) To put an end to. |
Period
(v. i.) To come to a period |
Prior
(a.) Preceding in the order of time |
Prior
(a.) The superior of a priory, and next below an abbot in dignity. |
Salina period
() The period in which the American Upper Silurian system, containing the brine-producing rocks of central New York, was formed. See the Chart of Geology. |
Separation
(n.) The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate. |
Separation
(n.) Chemical analysis. |
Separation
(n.) Divorce. |
Separation
(n.) The operation of removing water from steam. |
Trenton period
() A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America |
Year
(n.) The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic |
Year
(n.) The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun |
Year
(n.) Age, or old age |
| separation | the act of dividing or disconnecting |
| separation | the social act of separating or parting company, the separation of church and state |
divorce
divorcement | the legal dissolution of a marriage |
legal separation
separation | (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order) |
course session
class period
recitation | a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study |
| separation | sorting one thing from others, the separation of wheat from chaff, the separation of mail by postal zones |
| Hundred Years' War | the series of wars fought intermittently between France and England, - |
| Seven Years' War | a war of England and Prussia against France and Austria (-), Britain and Prussia got the better of it |
| Thirty Years' War | a series of conflicts (-) between Protestants and Catholics starting in Germany and spreading until France and Denmark and Sweden were opposing the Holy Roman Empire and Spain |
seventeen-year locust
periodical cicada
Magicicada septendecim | North American cicada, appears in great numbers at infrequent intervals because the nymphs take to years to mature |
two-year-old horse
two year old | a racehorse that is two years old |
three-year-old horse
three year old | a racehorse that is three years old |
| grade separation | a crossing that uses an underpass or overpass |
| period piece | any work of art whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period |
interval
separation | the distance between things, fragile items require separation and cushioning |
legal separation
judicial separation | a judicial decree regulating the rights and responsibilities of a married couple living apart |
period
point
full stop
stop full point | 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 |
| separation | the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal) |
separation
breakup
detachment | coming apart |
| class year | a body of students who graduate together, the class of ', she was in my year at Hoehandle High |
| divorce court | a court having jurisdiction over the termination of marriage contracts |
| separation | the space where a division or parting occurs, he hid in the separation between walls |
| divorce lawyer | a lawyer specializing in actions for divorce or annulment |
| prior | the head of a religious order, in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot |
binding energy
separation energy | the energy required to separate particles from a molecule or atom or nucleus, equals the mass defect |
menstruation
menses
menstruum
catamenia
period
flow | 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 begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females--Aristotle |
light year
light-year | the distance that light travels in a vacuum in year, . trillion miles or . trillion kilometers |
| separation | the state of lacking unity |
time period
period of time
period | an amount of time, a time period ofyears, hastened the period of time of his recovery, Picasso's blue period |
trial period
test period | a period of time during which someone or something is tested |
Quaternary
Quaternary period
Age of Man | last million years |
Tertiary
Tertiary period | from million to million years ago |
Cretaceous
Cretaceous period | from million to million years ago, end of the age of reptiles, appearance of modern insects and flowering plants |
Jurassic
Jurassic period | frommillion to million years ago, dinosaurs, conifers |
Triassic
Triassic period | frommillion tomillion years ago, dinosaurs, marine reptiles, volcanic activity |
Permian
Permian period | frommillion tomillion years ago, reptiles |
Carboniferous
Carboniferous period | from million tomillion years ago |
Pennsylvanian
Pennsylvanian period
Upper Carboniferous
Upper Carboniferous period | frommillion tomillion years ago, warm climate, swampy land |
Mississippian
Missippian period
Lower Carboniferous
Lower Carboniferous period | from million tomillion years ago, increase of land areas, primitive ammonites, winged insects |
Devonian
Devonian period
Age of Fishes | frommillion to million years ago, preponderance of fishes and appearance of amphibians and ammonites |
Silurian
Silurian period | from million tomillion years ago, first air-breathing animals |
Ordovician
Ordovician period | from million to million years ago, conodonts and ostracods and algae and seaweeds |
Cambrian
Cambrian period | from million to about million years ago, marine invertebrates |
Precambrian
Precambrian eon
Precambrian aeon
Precambrian period | the eon following the Hadean time and preceding the Phanerozoic eon, from about , million years ago until million years ago |
| sabbatical year | a sabbatical leave lasting one year |
days
years | the time during which someone's life continues, the monarch's last days, in his final years |
| period | the end or completion of something, death put a period to his endeavors, a change soon put a period to my tranquility |
| neonatal period | the first days of life |
latency stage
latency phase
latency period | (psychoanalysis) the fourth period (from about age or until puberty) during which sexual interests are supposed to be sublimated into other activities |
| golden years | the time of life after retirement from active work |