display exhibit showing | something shown to the public, the museum had many exhibits of oriental art |
course session class period recitation | a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study |
case display case showcase vitrine | a glass container used to store and display items in a shop or museum or home |
computer screen computer display | a screen used to display the output of a computer to the user |
digital display alphanumeric display | a display that gives the information in the form of characters (numbers or letters) |
display presentation | a visual representation of something |
display video display | an electronic device that represents information in visual form |
display adapter display adaptor | (computer science) an electronic device that converts information in memory to video output to a display |
display panel display board board | a vertical surface on which information can be displayed to public view |
display window shop window shopwindow show window | a window of a store facing onto the street, used to display merchandise for sale in the store |
dual scan display | a type of passive matrix display in which the top and bottom half of the screen are refreshed simultaneously |
flat panel display FPD | a type of video display that is thin and flat, commonly used in laptop computers |
liquid crystal display LCD | a digital display that uses liquid crystal cells that change reflectivity in an applied electric field, used for portable computer displays and watches etc. |
passive matrix display | a type of LCD display used for some portable computers, parallel wires run both vertically and horizontally and pixels are turned on when the wires intersecting at that pixel are both energized, passive matrix displays are generally inferior to active matrix displays |
period piece | any work of art whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period |
visual display unit VDU | (British) British term for video display |
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 |
display show | something intended to communicate a particular impression, made a display of strength, a show of impatience, a good show of looking interested |
display | exhibiting openly in public view, a display of courage |
display | behavior that makes your feelings public, a display of emotion |
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 |