a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations | (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome |
the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause | any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial |
an amount of time | a word or expression used for some particular thing |
the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon | one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition |
a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed | (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement |
the end or completion of something | a limited period of time |
(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games | the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent |