Austral Viagens tourism (finance) and period(2) (iou)

Austral Viagens tourism (finance)

Austral Viagens tourism is a major Angolan tourism company.

period(2) (iou)

period noun & adjective. LME.
[Old & mod. French periode from Latin periodus cycle, sentence from Greek periodos circuit, revolution, recurrence, course, orbit, rounded sentence, formed as PERI- + hodos way, course.]
A. noun.
I. A course or extent of time.
The time during which a disease runs its course; the time occupied by each attack of intermittent fever from its accession to its remission; each of the successive stages in the progress of a disease. LME.
latent period: see LATENT adjective.
b. gen. The time during which anything runs its course; time of duration. LME-L17.
A length of time marked by the recurrence of the times of astronomical events (e.g. the changes of the moon falling on the same days of the year), used as a unit in chronology; any length of time occupied by a recurring process or marked by the regular recurrence of a phenomenon. E17.
b. Astronomy. The time in which a planet or satellite performs one revolution about its primary or rotates once on its axis. E18.
Aeroplane Lunar gravity should draw the probe into an orbit which has a period of about 10 hr. C. Sagan A planet with..the same period of rotation..as Earth.
c. Science. The interval of time between successive occurrences of the same state in an oscillatory or cyclic phenomenon (e.g. a mechanical vibration, an alternating current, a variable star, or an electromagnetic wave); the time taken by one complete cycle; Math. the interval between successive equal values of a periodic function. M19.
A portion of time characterized by the same prevalent features or conditions; a distinct portion of history or of an artist's life; the portion of time in question; (with possess. adjective) the particular historical or cultural portion of time with which one is concerned. E18.
R. Fry Lady Cunard..wanted a Picasso of the blue period. M. Kelly The battle of Agincourt..was outside his period. N. Chomsky During the period of its industrial dominance Britain advocated economic liberalism. P. Gaskell Lithographic cylinder machines..had a Productivity comparable with..the letterpress machinery of the period. M. Kline The second great period of Greek history. A. N. Wilson Like all aristocratic children of the period, they saw very little of their father.
b. Geology. A major division of geological time; spec. one that is a subdivision of an era and is itself divided into epochs. M19.
N. Calder Every geologic period from the Precambrian to the Quaternary.
c. An occurrence of menstruation. L19.
I. McEwan My period has started and I need to get something. Daily Mirror We can stimulate the return of periods with an ovulatory drug.
d. A portion of time allocated to a lesson or Other activity in a school. L19.
e. Each of the intervals into which the playing time of a sporting event is divided. L19.
II. Completion, end of any course.
The final stage or point of completion of a process or course of action; an end, a finish, a conclusion; an outcome; a consummation. Esp. in put a period to, come to a period. arch. E16.
An acme, a zenith. L16-E17.
A limit in space, an appointed end (of a journey or course); fig. an end to be attained, a goal. L16-L18.
Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor This is the period of my ambition.
A stage in the progress of a thing; a point in time, a moment, an occasion. E17-L18.
III.
a. A grammatically complete sentence, esp. one consisting of several clauses. In pl., rhetorical or formal language. L16.
W. S. Maugham The liquid, exquisitely balanced periods fell from his lips like Music.
b. Classical Prosody. A group of two or more cola; a metrical group of verses each containing two or more cola. M19.
a. A full pause such as is properly made at the end of a sentence. Long rare or obsolete. L16.
b. = full stop (a) s.v. FULL adjective. L16.
c. As interjection. Added to a statement to emphasize a place where there is or should be a full stop, freq. (colloq.) implying finality, absoluteness, etc. Chiefly N. Amer. M20.
R. Carver Gone and never coming back. Period.
A set of digits in a long number marked off by commas or spaces to assist reading, or by dots placed over the first and last to indicate the repeating digits of a recurring decimal. L17.
Music. = SENTENCE noun 7b. M19.
Chemistry. A horizontal row in the periodic table of the elements; the set of elements occupying such a row, usu. comprising an alkali metal and those elements of greater atomic number up to and including the next noble gas. Cf. GROUP noun 3c (b). L19.
Phrases: Dionysian period: see DIONYSIAN adjective 3. free period: see FREE adjective. LUNISOLAR period. METONIC period. middle period: see MIDDLE adjective. out of period anachronistic. PAYBACK period. refractory period: see REFRACTORY adjective 5. safe period: see SAFE adjective. Sothic period: see SOTHIC 1. Victorian period: see VICTORIAN adjective1.
Comb.: period-luminosity adjective (Astronomy) relating the period of a variable star, esp. a cepheid, to its luminosity.
b. attrib. or as adjective. Belonging to, characteristic of, or representative of a particular period of the past, esp. in style or design. E20.
period piece a work of Art, furniture, literature, etc., considered in relation to its associations with or evocativeness of a past period; derog. such a work possessing interest only from such associations or evocativeness.
K. Moore It was apparently quite period enough for them and they enthused over its 'Art nouveau' alcoves.

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