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período in English:

1. period


When writing a sentence, generally you start with a capital letter and finish with a period (.), an exclamation mark (!), or a question mark (?).
training period
Eleanor suffered severely for her conjugal affection even after the death of her husband by being imprisoned for the dreadful period of forty-three years.
It is not known when the Hinamatsuri first started, but the Nagashibina, in its most primitive form, was already being celebrated during the Heian period.
If your licence exceeds its validity period then you can be issued with a new licence in the following way.
Depression is a period marked by slackening of business activity, widespread unemployment, falling prices, and wages, etc.
The museums are full of objects which the most cultivated taste of a period considered beautiful, but which seem to us now worthless.
During the probation period of my friend's new job, each month's salary is 3000 RMB; once the probation period has been fulfilled, each month's salary is 3500 RMB.
In the post-War period, up until 1975, Emperor Showa prayed at the Yasukuni Shrine a total of 8 times.
Up to this point I have presented an overview of the growth of political unrest in the period.
In the same period, the number of urban netizens in China reached one hundred and twenty five million, making up 21.6% of the total urban population.
Could it be that her prickly attitude is just because she has period pains? No, couldn't be.
At no period of our ancient history does there appear to have been greater attention paid to the culture of the female mind than during the age of Elizabeth and at no time has there existed a greater number of amiable and respectable women.
Net profit for the period is estimated at 5 billion yen, largely unchanged from the previous one.

2. term


'Radioactivity' is a chemistry term.
The term ‘milonguero style tango’ was coined in the early 1990s to describe the style of dancing tango that was prevalent in the milongas of downtown Buenos Aires in the 1950s.
It is a term used to describe the warming of the earth due to increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
However, the duty of a student is to study. So if you neglect the end of term test, that's a "no!".
It was proposed that the term "blind person" be replaced with the term "visually impaired person".
Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
Last time I couldn't carry my baby to full term.
In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the great number should govern and that the few should be governed.
Emphasizing its postural lean characteristic, the term ‘tango apilado’ has often been used as a synonym for 'tango milonguero'.
The term "hutong", originally meaning "water well", came from the Mongolian language about 700 years ago.
a technical/legal/scientific, etc. term
In the 1984 seminal book author Cara Greenberg gave a term to the style of design, architecture, furniture and accessories that had proliferated since World War II
this term has been disputed by scholars, in particular in reaction to Carl Condit's book The Chicago School of Architecture.
His disjointed term paper earned him a grade of 63%. Of course, he was not very logical himself.

English word "período"(term) occurs in sets:

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