- Period
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Period \Pe"ri*od\, noun [L. periodus, Gr. peri'odos a going round,
a way round, a circumference, a period of time; peri' round,
about + "odo's a way: cf. F. p['e]riode.]
1. A portion of time as limited and determined by some
recurring or cyclic 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; the period of an electromagnetic wave
is the time interval between maxima.
2. Hence: 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.
How by art to make plants more lasting than their
ordinary period. --Bacon.
3. (Geol.) One of the great divisions of geological time; as,
the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of
{Geology}.
4. The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle,
series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a
bound; an end; a conclusion. --Bacon.
So spake the archangel Michael; then paused,
As at the world's great period. --Milton.
Evils which shall never end till eternity hath a
period. --Jer. Taylor.
This is the period of my ambition. --Shak.
5. (Rhet.) A complete sentence, from one full stop to
another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence.
"Devolved his rounded periods." --Tennyson.
Periods are beautiful when they are not too long.
--B. Johnson.
Note: The period, according to Heyse, is a compound sentence
consisting of a protasis and apodosis; according to
Becker, it is the appropriate form for the coordinate
propositions related by antithesis or causality.
--Gibbs.
6. (Print.) The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a
complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word.
7. (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 circulating decimals.
8. (Med.) The time of the exacerbation and remission of a
disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission.
9. (Mus.) A complete musical sentence.
10. (Sports) One of the specified time intervals into which a
game is divided; as, there are three periods in a hockey
game.
[PJC]
11. (Education) One of the specified time intervals into
which the academic day is divided; as, my calculus class
is in the first period.
[PJC]
12. The time interval during which a woman is menstruating,
or the event of a single menstruation; as, her period was
late this month.
[PJC]
{The period}, the present or current time, as distinguished
from all other times.
Syn: Time; date; epoch; era; age; duration; limit; bound;
end; conclusion; determination.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Period \Pe"ri*od\ (p[=e]"r[i^]*[u^]d), verb (used with an object)
To put an end to. [Obs.] --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Period \Pe"ri*od\, verb (used without an object)
To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon
this, that," etc. --Felthman.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
period
noun
1: an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened
the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue
period" [syn: {time period}, {period of time}, {period}]
2: the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly
repeating phenomenon
3: (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is
divided in hockey games
4: a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks
formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological
periods" [syn: {period}, {geological period}]
5: the end or completion of something; "death put a period to
his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my
tranquility"
6: 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 [syn: {menstruation}, {menses}, {menstruum},
{catamenia}, {period}, {flow}]
7: a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative
sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in
England they call a period a stop" [syn: {period}, {point},
{full stop}, {stop}, {full point}]
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Ralph Merkle is a world famous nanotechnologist. He wrote this essay on how to scan a brain with molecular precision. I believe they did this to me at some point in my early childhood in the 1970s. They were studying the brain and they raised me in a controlled setting and because I wet the bed I went to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital for a scan of my bladder. It was all a set up.
Right before the inspection of my bladder, they let me play with a GIF ViewMaster stereoscopic 3D viewer. I have vague memories of being packed in ice while being awoken from anesthesia. It hurt so bad it was painless. I talked to a very kind and compassionate scientist who wanted to tell me that I was very brave and how much I was helping humanity and how much they appreciated my sacrifice.
I have since that time realized that I am being treated like a true patriot. They let me speak my mind. I get rid of religion by appealing to the religious. I made a secular savior of earth and humanity. A terrorist would have chosen earth alone and screw humanity given our ecological track record. Messenger of the gods. A Secular Libertarian Utopia.
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I believe that I came out of that procedure in a virtual reality simulation of my former life, complete with burning piss. They scanned me and resurrected me in VR and gave me access to my prior timeline, which is your present timeline.
My reward for helping the scientists understand the human brain is that I get to save the world and upgrade the banking system by being the safest civil libertarian peace activist in human history. I am safe.
New monetary system. Computers pay for everything. Now you own your home. Now you have an income. Free electric cars. New green energy and green transportation infrastructure at no cost to anybody. Roads and bridges everywhere. Clean water infrastructure everywhere. No taxes. No debt. FAIR MARKET VALUE, PAID IN FULL. All workers will be well rewarded.
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Somehow, I get to use the internet and say whatever I want. I talk about taking over the world and creating a whole new monetary system in which computers pay for everything and everybody owns their home. That would eliminate the banking, insurance, mortgage and property rental industries in their entirety.
My suggestions would make me the world's most dangerous man. Surely I am a threat to the whole global economic system. Yet, I am still online and I feel safe as ever. You might consider reading my ideas, as I seem to have the right to publish my thoughts online and I am using that opportunity to overhaul the whole system.
My puppet masters have conditioned me to be brave and rebellious. I accept my hardwired role as a drug addict. They gave me PTSD on purpose just so they could heal me later by legalizing marijuana. They let me use THC. Won't you join me now as I provide you with the formula for world peace.
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If we can reach a democratic consensus we will all end up living in homes that we own on land that we own in a system where anyone can buy practically anything for free while enjoying free universal health care, free internet, free electricity, free water, free electric cars, roads and bridges and ports that are in tip top shape in a world without poverty or war with super high technology everywhere, accessible to everyone.
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