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US
/ˈɛpək, ˈipək/
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[ UK /ˈɛpɒk/ ]
[ UK /ˈɛpɒk/ ]
NOUN
- a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages
- a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded
How To Use epoch In A Sentence
- For 10,000,000 years during the Miocene, Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs this area was a fiery inferno of constant volcanic activity and magnificent giants such as the Grizaba, La Malinche, Iztaccihuatl, Popocatepetl, Volcan de Toluca and Volcan de Colima, along with thousands of smaller volcanic cones, came into eruptive existence. The geology and geography of Lake Chapala and western Mexico
- Their conceptions of the battles between good and evil were almost identical, with Christianity adopting millennial epochs that were integral to Mithraism from Zoroastrianism .
- This is a fact the significance of which cannot escape anyone, and one which incontestably marks an epoch from the point of view of chemists. Marie Curie - Nobel Lecture
- Enter digitization information period, become big industry and hind the turning point with epoch - making industry.
- But, even when staffed by people with little or no experience in the Communist Party apparat or Soviet state, the new executive institutions bore the unmistakable stamp of the Soviet epoch, and even of the tsarist period.
- Considerable amount of thin interbedded limestones and shales was deposited in a subtropical and shallow-marine epicontinental sea during the Cincinnatian Epoch.
- The English were looting the Spanish, transforming the cash gained by selling off their medieval patrimony, and the coal hewn from their provinces, into a truly extraordinary epoch in human culture.
- The mineralogical Siderikan epoch may or may not move over a bit, from 3.5 Ga to 3, depending on atmosphere conditions. New Images Suggest More Recent Lakes on Mars | Universe Today
- Her religion is an obscure chaos of theogonies as old as the world, treasured up out of respect for ancient customs; and of more recent ideas about the blessed final annihilation, imported from India by saintly Chinese missionaries at the epoch of our The French Immortals Series — Complete
- As with the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the launching of Sputnik, epochal events can briefly change all the rules of the political game.
