Period

s. (periode, Fy, mepsodog. ) 1. A circuit. 2. Time in which any thing~is performed, so as to begin again in the same manner (Watts). 3. A stated number of years; @ round of time, at the end of which the things comprised within the calculation shall return to the state in which they were at the beginning (Holder). 4, The end or conclusion (Add is on). 5. The state at which any thing terminates (Suckling). 6. Length of duration (Bacon). 7. A complete sentence from one. full stop to another (Ben Jonson). 8. A course of transactions memorably terminated: the periods of an empire.