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Meaning:
Adjective:
- Appropriate for a given historical era.
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Interjection:
- North America And nothing else; and nothing less; used for emphasis.
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Noun:
- A length of time.
- An epoch, era, time in history or in a person's life.
- A specific length of time that an activity (such as a game or a school day) is conventionally divided into.
- chemistry A row in the periodic table of the elements.
- Female menstruation.
- genetics A ''Drosophila'' gene which gene product is involved in regulation of the circadian rhythm
- North America Punctuation mark ?.? (indicating the ending of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
- The minimum interval during which the same characteristics of a periodic phenomenon recur, such as the repetition of a wave or the rotation of a planet.
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