period vs emission

emission vs period

period and emission both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
period	Yes	No	No	No
emission	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, emission is a hypernym of period; that is, emission is a word with a broader meaning than period:

period: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
emission: any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body

Other hypernyms of period include discharge, expelling.

period (noun)	emission (noun)
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations	the act of emitting; causing to flow forth
the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause	the occurrence of a flow of water (as from a pipe)
an amount of time	the release of electrons from parent atoms
the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon	any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed	a substance that is emitted or released
the end or completion of something
(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games

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