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emission vs period

period vs emission

emission and period both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
emission Yes No No No
period Yes No No No
As nouns, period is a hyponym of emission; that is, period is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than emission:
  • emission: any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
  • period: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
Other hyponyms of emission include ejaculation, elimination, evacuation, excreting, excretion, voiding, catamenia, flow, menses, menstruation, menstruum.
emission (noun) period (noun)
the act of emitting; causing to flow forth a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
the occurrence of a flow of water (as from a pipe) the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
the release of electrons from parent atoms an amount of time
any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
a substance that is emitted or released a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
the end or completion of something
(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
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