Period in a sentence as a noun

"There are a only couple YC companies I wouldn't want to work for, period.

"But if you're asking people to make a sacrifice you're not willing to make yourself, you're a bad leader, period.

And no I didn't burn them I charged my regular rate, but I did work about 18 hours on it in a 24 hour period.

I really, really like Google, but I don't see this situation as being stable over a period of decades.

Also, during a decent period of time, mercantilism became a big factor in economic thinking.

However, this system has the potential to silence a lot of high quality comments on any threads that aren't on the front-page for an extended period of time.

Even in the period leading up to the 1960s, the EB was a staple in most every western home where parents valued education and academic achievement for their kids.

Something I thought slightly peculiar given that he was supposed to be investing his own, significant funds along with B. Plus, I don't believe that he actually did any measurable work during the time period that would justify it based on what I knew at the time.

During the same period, they religiously enforced export controls that classified any encryption code, including simple hash functions, as munitions.

Period definitions

noun

an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"

noun

the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon

noun

(ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games

noun

a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"

noun

the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"

noun

the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle

See also: menstruation menses menstruum catamenia flow

noun

a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop"

See also: point stop