Period may refer to:
Common uses
- Period (punctuation)
 - Era, a length or span of time
 - Menstruation, commonly referred to as a "period"
 
Arts, entertainment, and media
- Period (music), a concept in musical composition
 - Periodic sentence (or rhetorical period), a concept in grammar and literary style.
 - Period, a descriptor for a historical or period drama
 - Period, a timeframe in which a particular style of antique furniture or some other work of art was produced, such as the "Edwardian period"
 - Period (Another American Lie), a 1987 album by B.A.L.L.
 - Period (mixtape), a 2018 mixtape by City Girls
 - Period, the final book in Dennis Cooper's George Miles cycle of novels
 - Periods., a comedy film series
 
Mathematics
- In a repeating decimal, the length of the repetend
 - Period of a function, length or duration after which a function repeats itself
 - Period (algebraic geometry), numbers that can be expressed as integrals of algebraic differential forms over algebraically defined domains, forming a ring
 
Science
- Period (gene), a gene in Drosophila involved in regulating circadian rhythm
 - Period (periodic table), a horizontal row of the periodic table
 - "Period-" or "per-iod-", in some chemical compounds, "per" refers to oxidation state, and "iod" refers to the compound containing iodine
 - Unit of time or timeframe
- Period (geology), a subdivision of geologic time
 - Period (physics), the duration of time of one cycle in a repeating event
 - Orbital period, the time needed for one object to complete an orbit around another
 - Rotation period, the time needed for one object to complete a revolution
 
 - Wavelength, the spatial period of a periodic wave
 - Sentence (linguistics), especially when discussing complex sentences in Latin syntax
 
Other uses
- Period (school), a class meeting time in schools
 - Period (ice hockey), a division of play in an ice hockey game
 - Accounting period, often shortened to "period" in business, an accounting timeframe analogous to a month
 
See also
- Duration (disambiguation)
 - Full stop (disambiguation)
 - Periodicity (disambiguation)
 - Periodization
 - List of time periods
 - History by period
 
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