How is time peroid the reciprocal of frequency? Plz explain

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If you have ten events per second then you have one event every 1 event every tenth of a second.
Period is the time for 1 cycle.

Example: Freq. = 10 Hz = 10 cycles/s.
Period = 1/F = 1/10cycles/s = 0.1 s/cycle. So the period is the time for 1 cycles.