julian period

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• Julian

  ·adj Relating to, or derived from, Julius Caesar. ...

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• The Julian

  Tenement formerly called "the Julian" in par. of St. Dunstan in the East in the ward of the Tower in...

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• Period

  ·vt To put an end to. II. Period ·noun A complete musical sentence. III. Period ·vi To come to a p...

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• Hawthorne, Julian

  (b. 1846) Novelist, etc. Saxon Studies (1874), Archibald Malmaison (1878), Dust (1882), Fortune's F...

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• Alabama period

  ·- A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic. ...

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• Catskill period

  ·- The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well develop...

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• Champlain period

  ·- A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; — so named from be...

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• Chemung period

  ·- A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung Rive...

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• Hamilton period

  ·- A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; — so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York...

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• Niagara period

  ·- A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara e...

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• Salina period

  ·- The period in which the American Upper Silurian system, containing the brine-producing rocks of c...

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• Trenton period

  ·- A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America; — so named from Trenton Falls, in New Yor...

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• anomalistic period

  The time of revolution of a primary or secondary planet in reference to its line of apsides; that is...

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• sidereal period

  See revolution, time of. ...

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• synodical period or revolution

  If the interval of periodic time of a planet, or comet, be taken in reference to its passages throug...

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