epoch
IPA: ˈɛpʌk
noun
- A particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable.
- A notable event which marks the beginning of such a period.
- (chronology, astronomy, computing) A specific instant in time, chosen as the point of reference or zero value of a system that involves identifying instants of time.
- (geology) A geochronologic unit of hundreds of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of a period, and subdivided into ages (or sometimes subepochs).
- (machine learning) One complete presentation of the training data set to an iterative machine learning algorithm.
- (medicine) An intensive chemotherapy regimen for treating aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma, consisting of etoposide, prednisolone, Oncovin (vincristine), cyclophosphamide, and hydroxydaunorubicin.
verb
- (sciences, transitive) To divide (data) into segments by time period.
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Examples of "epoch" in Sentences
- This was the epoch of the hero.
- The primary source is The Epoch Times.
- That is the epoch of the modern Jewish calendar.
- It is considered to be in the middle of the Pleistocene epoch.
- The Middle Jurassic is the second epoch of the Jurassic Period.
- The Oligocene is the third and final epoch of the Paleogene period.
- The area was formed during the Miocene epoch of the Neogene period.
- The adapiformes existed from the Eocene epoch to the Miocene epoch.
- The Age of Cancer Capricorn marks the beginning of the Aryan Epoch.
- It is the first epoch of the Palaeogene Period in the modern Cenozoic era.
- A French writer said a year or two, ago, 'our epoch is not particularly gay but it is passionately interesting.
- As the Davidic epoch is the point of the covenant-people's highest glory, so the captivity is that of their lowest humiliation.
- In this street, stunt performers in epoch dresses walked around Lisbon in old cars and distributed the "Mad Men News" newspaper.
- 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.
- The slowness of historical change, the fact that any epoch always contains a great deal of the last epoch, is never sufficiently allowed for.
- Special elections require time, and, especially in epoch of such delicacy, special elections may inhibit the ability to pass important legislation.
- Because many computers today store the number of seconds as a 32-bit signed integer, the Unix epoch is often said to last 231 seconds, thus “ending” at 03: 14: 07 Tuesday, January 19, 2038 (UTC).
- The correlation of all these factors and which ones may be dominant during a given epoch is still the subject of intense research and is more of a guesstimate than firmly established scientific fact†¦ ..
- Marriage, whatever its particular manifestation in a particular culture or epoch, is essentially about who may and who may not have sexual access to a woman when she becomes an adult, and is also about how her adulthood -- and sexual accessibility -- is defined.
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