Definition of Time period

1. Noun. An amount of time. "Picasso's blue period"

Exact synonyms: Period, Period Of Time
Generic synonyms: Fundamental Measure, Fundamental Quantity
Specialized synonyms: Test Period, Trial Period, Time Frame, Hours, Downtime, Uptime, Work Time, Time Off, Bout, Hospitalization, Travel Time, Times, Time, Elapsed Time, Continuance, Duration, Calendar Week, Week, Midweek, Field Day, Life, Life-time, Lifespan, Lifetime, Life, Life, Millenary, Millennium, Bimillenary, Bimillennium, Occupation, Past, Shelf Life, Puerperium, Lactation, Time Of Life, Calendar Day, Civil Day, Festival, Day, Daylight, Daytime, Forenoon, Morn, Morning, Morning Time, Dark, Night, Nighttime, Night, Night, Night, Eve, Evening, Hebdomad, Week, Fortnight, Two Weeks, Weekend, Indian Summer, Saint Martin's Summer, Year, School, School Day, Schooltime, Twelvemonth, Year, Yr, Year, Semester, Bimester, Olympiad, Lustrum, Decade, Decennary, Decennium, Century, Quadrennium, Quinquennium, Half-century, Quarter-century, Quarter, Phase Of The Moon, Day, Calendar Month, Month, Mid-january, Mid-february, Mid-march, Mid-april, Mid-may, Mid-june, Mid-july, Mid-august, Mid-september, Mid-october, Mid-november, Mid-december, Time Limit, Term, Trimester, Hour, Silly Season, Golden Age, Silver Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Great Year, Platonic Year, Regulation Time, Extra Time, Overtime, Season, Time Of Year, Canicular Days, Canicule, Dog Days, Midwinter, Season, Season, Age, Long Time, Years, Long Haul, Long Run, Drought, Drouth, Epoch, Era, Generation, Prehistoric Culture, Prehistory, Reign, Run, Early Days, Youth, Dawn, Evening, Time, Nap, Sleep, Lease, Term Of A Contract, Half Life, Half-life, Lunar Time Period, Tide, Phase, Stage, Multistage, Watch, Peacetime, Wartime, Duty Tour, Enlistment, Hitch, Term Of Enlistment, Tour, Tour Of Duty, Honeymoon, Indiction, Prohibition, Prohibition Era, Incubation Period, Rainy Day, Noviciate, Novitiate, Bloom, Blossom, Efflorescence, Flower, Flush, Heyday, Peak, Prime, Running Time, Clotting Time, Air Alert, Question Time, Real Time, Real Time, Study Hall, Usance, Window
Specialized synonyms: Bronze Age, Iron Age, Stone Age, Eolithic, Eolithic Age, Palaeolithic, Paleolithic, Paleolithic Age, Lower Paleolithic, Middle Paleolithic, Upper Paleolithic, Epipaleolithic, Mesolithic, Mesolithic Age, Neolithic, Neolithic Age, New Stone Age, Great Schism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Time Period

time of arrival
time of asking
time of day
time of departure
time of flight
time of life
time of origin
time of pitch
time of year
time off
time out
time out of mind
time outs
time perception
time period (current term)
time plan
time preference
time preferences
time reversal
time reversals
time scale
time scales
time sense
time series
time served
time sharing
time sheet
time sheets
time shifting

Literary usage of Time period

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Aerodonetics: Constituting the Second Volume of a Complete Work on Aerial Flight by Frederick William Lanchester (1908)
"The time period of the ... The special case of the semicircular path also is one that may be calculated, the time period being that of a pendulum of length ..."

2. Aerodonetics: Constituting the Second Volume of a Complete Work on Aerial Flight by Frederick William Lanchester (1909)
"The time period of the ... V 9 The special case of the semicircular path also is one that may bo calculated, the time period being that of a pendulum of ..."

3. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1893)
"Adding to it the time period of the fossiliferous sedimentary rocks, ... years would be a fair estimate, or rather conjecture for Archean time. PERIOD. ..."

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