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 |
warming pan | a long-handled covered pan holding live coals to warm a bed |
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 |
greenhouse effect greenhouse warming | warming that results when solar radiation is trapped by the atmosphere, caused by atmospheric gases that allow sunshine to pass through but absorb heat that is radiated back from the warmed surface of the earth |
thaw thawing warming | warm weather following a freeze, snow and ice melt, they welcomed the spring thaw |
global warming | an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes) |
heating warming | the process of becoming warmer, a rising temperature |
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 |
tide lunar time period | there are usually two high and two low tides each day |
fertile period fertile phase | the time in the menstrual cycle when fertilization is most likely to be possible ( days before to days after ovulation) |
period | the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon |
orbit period | the time it takes to complete one full orbit around a celestial body, the orbit period depends on the altitude of the satellite |