Period vs. Event — What's the Difference?

An interval of time characterized by the occurrence of a certain condition, event, or phenomenon

Something that takes place, especially a significant occurrence.

An interval of time characterized by the prevalence of a specified culture, ideology, or technology

A social gathering or activity

An interval regarded as a distinct evolutionary or developmental phase

(Sports) A contest in a sports competition, such as a meet

(Geology) A unit of time, longer than an epoch and shorter than an era.

(Physics) A phenomenon or occurrence located at a single point in spacetime, regarded as the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory.

Any of the divisions of the academic day.

(Archaic) A final result; an outcome.

Sports & Games A division of the playing time of a game.

An occurrence; something that happens.

Physics & Astronomy The time interval between two successive occurrences of a recurrent event or phases of an event; a cycle

A prearranged social activity (function, etc.)

See menstrual period.

One of several contests that combine to make up a competition.

A point or portion of time at which something is ended; a completion or conclusion.

An end result; an outcome (now chiefly in phrases).

A punctuation mark ( . ) indicating a full stop, placed at the end of declarative sentences and other statements thought to be complete, and after many abbreviations.

(physics) A point in spacetime having three spatial coordinates and one temporal coordinate.

The full pause at the end of a spoken sentence.

(computing) A possible action that the user can perform that is monitored by an application or the operating system (event listener). When an event occurs an event handler is called which performs a specific task.

A sentence of several carefully balanced clauses in formal writing.

(probability theory) A set of some of the possible outcomes; a subset of the sample space.

A metrical unit of quantitative verse consisting of two or more cola.

(obsolete) An affair in hand; business; enterprise.

An analogous unit or division of classical Greek or Latin prose.

(medicine) An episode of severe health conditions.

(Music) A group of two or more phrases within a composition, often made up of 8 or 16 measures and terminating with a cadence.

(obsolete) To occur, take place.

The least interval in the range of the independent variable of a periodic function of a real variable in which all possible values of the dependent variable are assumed.

To be emitted or breathed out; to evaporate.

A group of digits separated by commas in a written number.

To expose to the air, ventilate.

The number of digits that repeat in a repeating decimal. For example, 1/7 = 0.142857142857 ... has a six-digit period.

That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad.

(Chemistry) A sequence of elements arranged in order of increasing atomic number and forming one of the horizontal rows in the periodic table.

An affair in hand; business; enterprise.

Of, belonging to, or representing a certain historical age or time

The consequence of anything; the issue; conclusion; result; that in which an action, operation, or series of operations, terminates.

Used to emphasize finality, as when expressing a decision or an opinion

To break forth.

A length of time.

Something that happens at a given place and time

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

A special set of circumstances;

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

A phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory

(figurative) A decisive end to something; a stop.

A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon;

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.

(euphemism) Female menstruation; an episode of this.

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.

Each of the intervals, typically three, of which a game is divided.

One or more additional intervals to decide a tied game, an overtime period.

The length of time for a disease to run its course.

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

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

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

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

(geology) A geochronologic unit of millions to tens of millions of years; a subdivision of an era, and subdivided into epochs.

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

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

(math) The length of an interval over which a periodic function, periodic sequence or repeating decimal repeats; often the least such length.

(archaic) End point, conclusion.

Designating anything from a given historical era. en

Evoking, or appropriate for, a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate costumes and scenery.

That's final; that's the end of the matter (analogous to a period ending a sentence); end of story.

To come to a period; to conclude.

To put an end to.

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.

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.

One of the great divisions of geological time; as, the Tertiary period; the Glacial period. See the Chart of Geology.

The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act; hence, a limit; a bound; an end; a conclusion.

A complete sentence, from one full stop to another; esp., a well-proportioned, harmonious sentence.

The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word.

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.

The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission.

A complete musical sentence.

To put an end to.

To come to a period; to conclude. [Obs.] "You may period upon this, that," etc.

An amount of time;

One of three periods of play in hockey games

A stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time;

The interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon

The monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause;

A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations;

A unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed;

The end or completion of something;