Period
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Period may refer to:
Common meanings
- Era, a length or span of time
 - Full stop or period, a punctuation mark
 - Menstruation, also called a "period"
 
Science and mathematics
- Wave period, the time required for one full oscillation
 - Orbital period, the time needed for one object to complete an orbit around another
 - Period (periodic table), a horizontal row of the periodic table
 - Period (gene), a gene in Drosophila involved in regulating circadian rhythm
 - Period (geology), a subdivision of geologic time
 - Periods (ring), members of the ring of numbers that can be expressed as integrals of algebraic differential forms over algebraically defined domains
 
Arts
- Period (music), a concept in musical composition
 - Period, the final book in Dennis Cooper's George Miles cycle of novels
 
Other uses
- Period (school), a class meeting time in schools
 - Periods in ice hockey; see Ice hockey#Periods and overtime
 
See also
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