period
Period (from ancient Greek períodos "handling, circulation, circulation") stands for:
Mathematics and physics:
- recurring sequence of digits, see decimal system #period
- Distance between the occurrence of the same function values, see periodic function
- Period (physics) , duration of a single oscillation
- Period (cryptology) , number of characters after which an alphabet used for encryption is repeated
Additional:
- Period of the periodic table , outline of the chemical elements
- Period (music) , self-contained basic musical form
- Period (verse teaching) , group of several Kola
- Period, colloquially for the menstrual cycle
See also:
- Periodical (ongoing collection)
- Periodization (division of history into ages)
- Periodicity (regularity of a specific event)
- List of all Wikipedia articles with titles starting with Period
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title contains periodically
Wiktionary: Period - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: periodic - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
