Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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period | Yes | No | No | No |
division | Yes | No | No | No |
period (noun) | division (noun) |
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a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations | the act or process of dividing |
the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed |
an amount of time | the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart |
the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon | one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole |
a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed | discord that splits a group |
the end or completion of something | an army unit large enough to sustain combat |
(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games | a group of ships of similar type |
a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings | |
an administrative unit in government or business | |
(botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum | |
(biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category | |
a league ranked by quality |