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period

13 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. period (noun)
  2. absolute refractory period (noun)
  3. gestation period (noun)
  4. incubation period (noun)
  5. latency period (noun)
  6. latent period (noun)
  7. patent period (noun)
  8. prepatent period (noun)
  9. refractory period (noun)
  10. relative refractory period (noun)
  11. safe period (noun)
  12. Wenckebach period (noun)
  13. gestation (noun)

pe·ri·od

noun \ˈpir-ē-əd\

Definition of PERIOD

1
a : a portion of time determined by some recurring phenomenon b : a single cyclic occurrence of menstruation
2
: a chronological division <the period of incubation of a disease>

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