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term vs period

period vs term

term and period both are nouns.

term is a verb but period is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
term Yes No Yes No
period Yes No No No
As nouns, period is a hypernym of term; that is, period is a word with a broader meaning than term:
  • term: a limited period of time
  • period: an amount of time
Other hypernyms of term include period of time, time period.
term (noun) period (noun)
(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 a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
a word or expression used for some particular thing an amount of time
one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon
(usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed
a limited period of time the end or completion of something
the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games
term (verb) period (verb)
name formally or designate with a term
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