SECOND PERIOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does second period mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECOND PERIOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("second 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 ("second 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 

The second period of the Mesozoic era, thought to have covered the span of time between 190 and 135 million years ago.

(Jurassic period, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

A unit of angular acceleration equivalent to the rate of change of angular velocity by one angular degree per second during one second period.

(Degree per Second Squared, NCI Thesaurus)