punctuation mark vs period

period vs punctuation mark

punctuation mark and period both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
punctuation mark	Yes	No	No	No
period	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, period is a hyponym of punctuation mark; that is, period is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than punctuation mark:

punctuation mark: the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases
period: a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

Other hyponyms of punctuation mark include ampersand, apostrophe, brace, bracket, square bracket, angle bracket, bracket, colon, comma, exclamation mark, exclamation point, dash, hyphen, parenthesis, full point, full stop, point, stop, interrogation point, question mark, inverted comma, quotation mark, quote, semicolon, diagonal, separatrix, slash, solidus, stroke, virgule, swung dash.

punctuation mark (noun)	period (noun)
the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases	a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
	the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
	an amount of time
	the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
	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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