Period vs Condition - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between period and condition

is that period is a specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage while condition is the situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.

In lang=en terms the difference between period and condition

is that period is one of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in recurring decimals while condition is a clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.

As nouns the difference between period and condition

is that period is the length of time for a disease to run its course while condition is a logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.

As verbs the difference between period and condition

is that period is to come to a period; to conclude while condition is to subject to the process of acclimation.

As an adjective period

is appropriate for a given historical era.

As an interjection period

is and nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.

period

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Alternative forms

Adjective

(-)

Appropriate for a given historical era.

* 2004 , Mark Singer, Somewhere in America , Houghton Mifflin, page 70:

As the guests arrived — there were about a hundred, a majority in period attire — I began to feel out of place in my beige summer suit, white shirt, and red necktie. Then I got over it. I certainly didn't suffer from Confederate-uniform envy.

Set in and designed to evoke a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate costumes and scenery.

Interjection

(en interjection)

(chiefly, North America) And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.

When I say "eat your dinner," it means "eat your dinner," period !

Synonyms

* (and nothing else) full stop

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete, medicine) The length of time for a disease to run its course.

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

* , II.3:

All comes to one period , whether man make an end of himselfe, or whether he endure it.

* Milton

So spake the archangel Michael; then paused, / As at the world's great period .

* Jeremy Taylor

evils which shall never end till eternity hath a period

* Shakespeare

This is the period of my ambition.

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

* , chapter=7

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}

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

* Ben Jonson

Periods are beautiful when they are not too long.

* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :

that such iron moulds as these shall have autority to knaw out the choicest periods of exquisitest books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that haples race of men, whose misfortune it is to have understanding.

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

A length of time.

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 14, author=Steven Morris, work=Guardian

, title= Devon woman jailed for 168 days for killing kitten in microwave , passage=Philip Miles, defending, said: "This was a single instance, there was no allegation of continuing behaviour over a long period of time."}}

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.

(obsolete) A specific moment during a given process; a point, a stage.

* 1720 , Alexander Pope, translating Homer, Iliad , Book IV (note 125):

The Death of Patroclus was the most eminent Period ; and consequently the most proper Time for such Games.

Female menstruation.

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

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

(chemistry) A row in the periodic table of the elements.

(geology) A subdivision of an era, typically lasting from tens to hundreds of millions of years, see .

(genetics) A Drosophila gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm.

* {{quote-journal

, title= Antibodies to the period gene product of drosophila reveal diverse tissue distribution and rhythmic changes in the visual system , volume=1, issue=2, page=141, year=1988, date=1 April, journal=Neuron , passage=Polyclonal antibodies were prepared against the period gene product, which influences biological rhythms in D. melanogaster, by using small synthetic peptides from the per sequence as immunogens.}}

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, date=20 November 2009 citation , title=Gene Dmel\per, format=Gene Report (database record) , work=FlyBase, publisher=The FlyBase Consortium , language=en, accessdate=7 December, accessyear=2009}}

(music) Two phrases (an antecedent]] and a [[consequent phrase, consequent phrase).

(math) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in recurring decimals.

Derived terms

* pseudoperiod, pseudoperiodic

Synonyms

* * See also

Antonyms

* (length of time of recurrence of a periodic phenomenon) frequency

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To come to a period; to conclude.

* Owen Felltham

For you may period upon this, that where there is the most pity for others, there is the greatest misery in the party pitied.

To put an end to.

(Shakespeare)

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Noun

(of time)

Declension

{{sh-decl-noun , period, periodi , perioda, perioda , periodu, periodima , period, periode , periode, periodi , periodu, periodima , periodom, periodima }}

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condition

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Noun

(en noun)

A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.

A requirement, term or requisite.

(legal) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.

The health status of a medical patient.

The state or quality.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}

A particular state of being.

(obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.

A man of his condition has no place to make request.

Quotations

* (English Citations of "condition")

Synonyms

* (the health or state of something) fettle

Derived terms

* conditional * condition subsequent * human condition * in condition * interesting condition * mint condition * necessary condition * precondition * statement of condition * sufficient condition

Verb

(en verb)

To subject to the process of acclimation.

I became conditioned to the absence of seasons in San Diego.

To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.

They were conditioning their shins in their karate class.

To place conditions or limitations upon.

* Tennyson

Seas, that daily gain upon the shore, / Have ebb and flow conditioning their march.

To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.

To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.

To contract; to stipulate; to agree.

* Beaumont and Fletcher

Pay me back my credit, / And I'll condition with ye.

* Sir Walter Raleigh

It was conditioned between Saturn and Titan, that Saturn should put to death all his male children.

To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).

(McElrath)

(US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.

to condition a student who has failed in some branch of study

To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.

* Sir W. Hamilton

To think of a thing is to condition .

Derived terms

* air-condition * conditioner * precondition * recondition

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