HISTORIC PERIOD Synonyms

• a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled

• any distinct period in history or in a person's life

• a local branch of some fraternity or association

• an ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church

• a series of related events forming an episode

• a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event

• (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded

• a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages

• (baseball) a measure of a pitcher's effectiveness; calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched

• a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event

• a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods

• all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

• group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent

• the normal time between successive generations

• a stage of technological development or innovation

• a coming into being

• the production of heat or electricity

• the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

• an amount of time

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

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

• a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed

• the end or completion of something

• the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause

• a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

• a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful

• the period during which a monarch is sovereign

• royal authority; the dominion of a monarch

• have sovereign power

• be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance

• any distinct time period in a sequence of events

• a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process

• a large platform on which people can stand and can be seen by an audience

• the theater as a profession (usually `the stage')

• a large coach-and-four formerly used to carry passengers and mail on regular routes between towns

• a section or portion of a journey or course

• any scene regarded as a setting for exhibiting or doing something

• a small platform on a microscope where the specimen is mounted for examination

• perform (a play), especially on a stage

• plan, organize, and carry out (an event)

• an instance or single occasion for some event

• a period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something

• an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)

• a suitable moment

• the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past

• a person's experience on a particular occasion

• a reading of a point in time as given by a clock

• the fourth coordinate that is required (along with three spatial dimensions) to specify a physical event

• rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration

• the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned

• measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time

• assign a time for an activity or event

• set the speed, duration, or execution of

• regulate or set the time of

• adjust so that a force is applied and an action occurs at the desired time