Tutorial and Period

noun

• A session of intensive tuition given by a tutor to an individual or to a small number of students.

adjective

• Of or relating to tutors or tutoring.
  • usage: "tutorial sessions"

noun

• An amount of time.
  • usage: "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
  • synonyms: time period, period 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.
  • usage: "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods"
  • synonyms: geological period
• The end or completion of something.
  • usage: "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility"
• The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause."the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped-Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females-Aristotle
  • synonyms: menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, flow
• A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations.
  • usage: "in England they call a period a stop"
  • synonyms: point, full stop, stop, full point

• (n.) A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; especially, a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence.
• (n.) One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.
• (n.) The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion.
• (v.i.) To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc.
• (n.) The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease or of the paroxysm and intermission.
• (n.) The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence or of an abbreviated word.
• (v.t.) To put an end to.
• (n.) A complete musical sentence.
• (n.) A stated and recurring interval of time; more generally, an interval of time specified or left indefinite; a certain series of years, months, days or the like; a time; a cycle; an age; an epoch; as, the period of the Roman republic.
• (n.) A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun or the earth or a comet.
• (n.) 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 circulating decimals.