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a full stop so confident it ended civilizations, sentences, and group chats.
means A period is the dot that ends a sentence, or a stretch of time with a beginning and an end (also, the menstrual cycle's monthly arrival).
from From Greek 'periodos,' literally 'a way around' — 'peri-' (around) plus 'hodos' (path or road), the same 'hodos' lurking in 'method' and 'exodus.' It first meant a complete cycle or circuit of time, then narrowed to the punctuation mark that completes the circuit of a sentence. It traveled through Latin 'periodus' and French into English, and the menstrual sense grew from the older 'recurring interval' meaning.
- ancient origin
- Greeks used dots to mark pauses in speech
- texting menace
- a period now reads as passive-aggressive anger
- geologic scale
- Earth's history splits into vast named periods
- physics term
- the time one full cycle takes to repeat
- slang weapon
- saying period ends an argument cold
menstrual cycle — occurs approximately every 28 days in people with ovaries during reproductive years
permian-triassic extinction — 252 million years ago, killed 96% of marine species and 70% of vertebrate species