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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop" [syn: period, point, full stop, stop, full point]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1596 chiefly British period 5a

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(full stops) A full stop is the punctuation mark . which you use at the end of a sentence when it is not a question or exclamation. (BRIT; in AM, use period) N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

arrest, bell, cessation, check, checkmate, cutoff, dead set, dead stand, dead stop, deadlock, dying down, ebb, ebbing, end, endgame, ending, final whistle, grinding halt, gun, halt, lock, lockout, sit-down strike, stalemate, stand, standoff, standstill, stay, stillstand, stop, stoppage, strike, subsidence, walkout, wane, waning, work stoppage