1 any length of time: a period of three days; a period of waiting.
az: müddət
ru: промежуток времени; период
2 a stage in the Earth's development, an artist's development, in history etc : the Pleistocene period; the modern period.
az: dövr
ru: эпоха
3 the punctuation mark (.), put at the end of a sentence; a full stop.
az: nöqtə
ru: точка
♦ adjective
(of furniture, costumes etc) of or from the same or appropriate time in history; antique or very old: period costumes; His house is full of period furniture (=antique furniture).
az: tarixi
ru: исторический; старинный
(chemistry) a table in which the chemical elements are arranged in order of increasing atomic number. Elements with similar properties are shown in related groups: The periodic table is one of the most important tools for understanding chemistry.
az: Mendeleyev cədvəli
ru: таблица Менделеева
on the edge of something: peripheral vision; He is a peripheral member of the group.
az: periferik
ru: периферийный
♦ noun
(computing) a piece of equipment, such as a printer, that is connected to a computer.
az: xarici, qoşma
ru: внешнее устройство
a tube containing mirrors, through which a person can look in order to see things which cannot be seen from the position the person is in, especially one used in submarines when under water to allow a person to see what is happening on the surface of the sea.
az: periskop
ru: перископ