1. a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; - Example: "in England they call a period a stop" [syn: period, point, full stop, stop, full point]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
full point
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]