period

From Glossary of Meteorology
Any function of time f(t) is periodic with period t if f(t) = f(t + τ) for all times t, where τ is the smallest number for which this equality holds.

Without qualification, period often means temporal period, but could mean spatial period (wavelength), the repeat distance of a spatially periodic function.
See frequency.

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