FINAL PERIOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does final period mean? 

• FINAL PERIOD (noun)
  The noun FINAL PERIOD has 1 sense:

1. the final division into which the play of a game is divided

  Familiarity information: FINAL PERIOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FINAL PERIOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The final division into which the play of a game is divided

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("final period" is a kind of...):

division; part; section (one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole)

Holonyms ("final period" is a part of...):

period of play; play; playing period ((in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds)

 Context examples 

Paleontologists have identified a new species of titanosaurian, a member of the large-bodied sauropods that thrived during the final period of the dinosaur age, in Tanzania.

(Paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania, NSF)