The difference between Full-point and Period

When used as nouns, full-point means or ⟨.⟩, whereas period means a length of time.


Period is also interjection with the meaning: that's final.

Period is also verb with the meaning: to come to a period.

Period is also adjective with the meaning: designating anything from a given historical era.

check bellow for the other definitions of Full-point and Period

  1. Full-point as a noun:

    or ⟨.⟩.

  1. Period as a noun:

    A length of time.

    Examples:

    "There was a period of confusion following the announcement."

    "You'll be on probation for a six-month period."

  2. Period as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "Food rationing continued in the post-war period."

  3. Period as a noun (now, chiefly, North America):

    The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).

  4. Period as a noun:

    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.

  5. Period as a noun:

    Female menstruation.

    Examples:

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

  6. Period as a noun:

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

    Examples:

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

  7. Period as a noun:

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

    Examples:

    "I have math class in second period."

  8. Period as a noun (chiefly, North America):

    Each of the intervals into which various sporting events are divided.

    Examples:

    "Gretzky scored in the last minute of the second period."

  9. Period as a noun (obsolete, medicine):

    The length of time for a disease to run its course.

  10. Period as a noun:

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

  11. Period as a noun (rhetoric):

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

  12. Period as a noun (obsolete):

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

  13. Period as a noun (chemistry):

    A row in the periodic table of the elements.

  14. Period as a noun (geology):

    A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see Appendix: Geologic timescale.

  15. Period as a noun (genetics):

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

  16. Period as a noun (music):

    Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase).

  17. Period as a noun (math):

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

  18. Period as a noun (archaic):

    End point, conclusion.

  1. Period as an adjective:

    Designating anything from a given historical era.

    Examples:

    "a period car"

    "a period TV commercial"

  2. Period as an adjective:

    Evoking, or appropriate for, a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate costumes and scenery.

  1. Period as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To come to a period; to conclude.

  2. Period as a verb (obsolete, transitive, rare):

    To put an end to.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Shakespeare"

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