the act of discharging a gun | a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations |
the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause |
a formal written statement of relinquishment | an amount of time |
the act of venting | the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon |
the sudden giving off of energy | a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed |
the pouring forth of a fluid | the end or completion of something |
electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field | (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games |
any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body | |
a substance that is emitted or released | |