depreciation | a decrease in price or value, depreciation of the dollar against the yen |
course session class period recitation | a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study |
period piece | any work of art whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period |
disparagement depreciation derogation | a communication that belittles somebody or something |
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 |
self-depreciation | a feeling of being of little worth |
EBITDA Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization | income before interest and taxes and depreciation and amortization have been subtracted, an indicator of a company's profitability that is watched by investors (especially in leveraged buyouts) |
depreciation allowance | an allowance for loss due to depreciation |
depreciation charge | an amount periodically charged to expense or against revenue in compensation for depreciation of property |
rate of depreciation depreciation rate | the rate at which the value of property is reduced, used to calculate tax deduction |
depreciation wear and tear | decrease in value of an asset due to obsolescence or use |
straight-line method straight-line method of depreciation | (accounting) a method of calculating depreciation by taking an equal amount of the asset's cost as an expense for each year of the asset's useful life |
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 |
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 |
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 |
day twenty-four hours twenty-four hour period -hour interval solar day mean solar day | time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis, two days later they left, they put on two performances every day, there are , passengers per day |
lunchtime lunch period | the customary or habitual hour for eating lunch, he observed a regular lunchtime |
gestation gestation period | the period during which an embryo develops (about days in humans) |
refractory period | (neurology) the time after a neuron fires or a muscle fiber contracts during which a stimulus will not evoke a response |
overtime period | a period of overtime play to resolve a tie, e.g. basketball |
period geological period | a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed, ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods |
historic period age | an era of history having some distinctive feature, we live in a litigious age |
ice age glacial period glacial epoch | any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface, the most recent ice age was during the Pleistocene |
playing period period of play play | (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds, rain stopped play in the th inning |
first period | the first division into which the play of a game is divided |
second period | the second division into which the play of a game is divided |
final period | the final division into which the play of a game is divided |
period | (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games |
Baroque Baroque era Baroque period | the historic period from about untilwhen the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe |
Reconstruction Reconstruction Period | the period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union, - |
latent period | the time that elapses before the presence of a disease is manifested by symptoms |
reaction time response time latency latent period | the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it |
respite rest relief rest period | a pause for relaxation, people actually accomplish more when they take time for short rests |