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The time taken to complete one full cycle of a repeating motion or wave: the period is the duration of a single oscillation, and it is the reciprocal of frequency, so a shorter period means more cycles each second. Nelson and Olsson's 1986 study The pendulum: Rich physics from a simple system examined how the period of a swinging pendulum depends on its length and on gravity, refining the classic result. Here the period is a length of time, often a fraction of a second, that says how fast something repeats, not a division of Earth's history, a row of chemical elements, or a phase of the reproductive cycle.[1]
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