a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations | an occasion for excessive eating or drinking |
the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers) |
an amount of time | (sports) a division of a game during which one team is on the offensive |
the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon | a period of illness |
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 | |