English Dictionary

period

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpɪə.ɹi.əd/

名詞

カナダ英語 フィリピン英語 アメリカ英語 比喩的用法 婉語 廃用 修辞法 古語

A length of time. / A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.

日本語の意味

期間 / 時代

The renovation project will take a period of six weeks to complete.

改装工事は完成するまでに6週間の期間を要します。

意味（1）

A length of time.

There was a period of confusion following the announcement.

意味（2）

A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era.

Food rationing continued in the post-war period.

意味（3）

(now chiefly Canada, US, Philippines) The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).

‘You know, a period? The black spot at the end of a sentence — what do you call them over there?’

意味（4）

(figuratively) A decisive end to something; a stop.

My sufferings, physical and mental, are more than I can bear, and when such small arrangements as I have to make for your future well-being are completed it is my intention to put a period to them.

意味（5）

The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.

意味（6）

(euphemistic) Female menstruation; an episode of this.

When she is on her period, she prefers not to go swimming.

意味（7）

A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc.

This is one of the last paintings Picasso created during his Blue Period.

意味（8）

Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity.

I have math class in second period.

意味（9）

(sports, chiefly ice hockey) Each of the intervals, typically three, of which a game is divided.

Gretzky scored in the last minute of the second period.

意味（10）

(sports, chiefly ice hockey) One or more additional intervals to decide a tied game, an overtime period.

They won in the first overtime period.

意味（11）

(obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.

意味（12）

An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc.

Why now let me die, for I haue liu'd long enough : This is the period of my ambition : O this bleſſed houre.

意味（13）

(rhetoric) A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole.

Periods are beautiful when they are not too long.

意味（14）

(obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.

The Death of Patroclus was the most eminent Period; and consequently the most proper Time for such Games.

意味（15）

(chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.

意味（16）

(geology) A geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years; a subdivision of an era, and subdivided into epochs.

These fossils are from the Jurassic period.

意味（17）

(genetics) A Drosophila gene, the gene product of which is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.

Polyclonal antibodies were prepared against the period gene product, which influences biological rhythms in D. melanogaster, by using small synthetic peptides from the per sequence as immunogens.

意味（18）

(music) Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).

意味（19）

(mathematics) The length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length.

意味（20）

(archaic) End point, conclusion.

As thus all gazed on hir, so she glaunced hir lookes on all, surueying them as curiously, as they noted hir exactly, but at last she set downe her period on the face of Alexis […]

periods （ plural ）