final period

1. 1.

   the final division into which the play of a game is divided

   Broaderpart

   Part ofplaying period

Questions about final period

What does final period mean?

final period means "the final division into which the play of a game is divided".

Is final period a common word?

final period is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.