suspension point vs period

period vs suspension point

suspension point and period both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
suspension point	Yes	No	No	No
period	Yes	No	No	No

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

suspension point: (usually plural) one of a series of points indicating that something has been omitted or that the sentence is incomplete
period: a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

Other hypernyms of suspension point include full point, full stop, point, stop.

suspension point (noun)	period (noun)
(usually plural) one of a series of points indicating that something has been omitted or that the sentence is incomplete	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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