decade vs period

decade

noun
  • A period of ten years , particularly such a period beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending with a year ending in 9. 

  • Any of the sets of ten sequential braille characters with predictable patterns. 

  • A group, set, or series of ten 

  • A period of ten days, (history) particularly those in the ancient Egyptian, Coptic, and French Revolutionary calendars. 

  • A series of prayers counted on a rosary, typically consisting of an Our Father, followed by ten Hail Marys, and concluding with a Glory Be and sometimes the Fatima Prayer. 

  • A set of resistors, capacitors, etc. connected so as to provide even increments between one and ten times a base electrical resistance. 

  • The interval between any two quantities having a ratio of 10 to 1. 

  • A set of ten electronic devices used to represent digits. 

period

noun
  • A length of time. 

  • The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation). 

  • One or more additional intervals to decide a tied game, an overtime period. 

  • A complete sentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole. 

  • A period of time in history seen as a single coherent entity; an epoch, era. 

  • The length of time during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet. 

  • An end or conclusion; the final point of a process etc. 

  • A section of an artist's, writer's (etc.) career distinguished by a given quality, preoccupation etc. 

  • A geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years; a subdivision of an era, and subdivided into epochs. 

  • Each of the divisions into which a school day is split, allocated to a given subject or activity. 

  • Each of the intervals, typically three, of which a game is divided. 

  • A Drosophila gene, the gene product of which is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm. 

  • The length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length. 

  • Female menstruation; an episode of this. 

  • A row in the periodic table of the elements. 

  • A decisive end to something; a stop. 

  • Two phrases (an antecedent and a consequent phrase). 

intj
  • That's final; that's the end of the matter (analogous to a period ending a sentence); end of story. 

adj
  • Designating anything from a given historical era. 

  • Evoking, or appropriate for, a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate costumes and scenery. 

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