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Definition of Periods
1. period [n] - See also: period
Lexicographical Neighbors of Periods
Literary usage of Periods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by United States (1918)
"Related work 7 to 10 45-minute periods. (General science applied to the household,
... Home economics 5 90-minute periods. (Choice of house planning and ..."
2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Two main types of respiration apparatus are in use: (1) a type designed to permit
of following the gas metabolism over longer periods (24 hours or more) ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... eternal Self. or real man. wins through innumerable incarnations in physical
bodies. cession) and each world period consume ot seven Root Race periods, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"where x is the measure on the mental scale, Г the natural period, t any other
period, and ea personal constant. By this formula the various periods may be ..."
5. A Comparison of Methods for Determining the Respiratory Exchange of Man by Thorne Martin Carpenter (1915)
"Nosepieces, 4 periods; mouthpiece, 4 periods; periods with nosepieces and mouthpiece
in series ... In all of the periods there was a very distinct tendency, ..."
6. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1901)
"IT is not proposed, in this paper, to add another to the ever-lengthening list
of theories which attempt to account for the occurrence of glacial periods. ..."
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