acceptance | the act of taking something that is offered, her acceptance of the gift encouraged him, he anticipated their acceptance of his offer |
adoption acceptance acceptation espousal | the act of accepting with approval, favorable reception, its adoption by society, the proposal found wide acceptance |
acceptance sampling | a statistical procedure for accepting or rejecting a batch of merchandise or documents, involves determining the maximum number of defects discovered in a sample before the entire batch is rejected |
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 |
toleration acceptance sufferanceb | a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations, all people should practice toleration and live together in peace |
self acceptance | an acceptance of yourself as you are, warts and all |
credence acceptance | the mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true, he gave credence to the gossip, acceptance of Newtonian mechanics was unquestioned for years |
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 |
acceptance | (contract law) words signifying consent to the terms of an offer (thereby creating a contract) |
trade acceptance | a bill of exchange for a specific purchase, drawn on the buyer by the seller and bearing the buyer's acceptance |
acceptance banker's acceptance | banking: a time draft drawn on and accepted by a bank |
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 |
acceptance | the state of being acceptable and accepted, torn jeans received no acceptance at the country club |
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 |