era

IPA: ˈɛrʌ

A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
(geology) A geochronologic unit of tens to hundreds of millions of years; a subdivision of an eon, and subdivided into periods.
(astrometry) Initialism of Earth rotation angle (the rotation of the Earth from the Celestial Intermediate Origin that has no instantaneous motion along the equator.)
(baseball) Initialism of earned run average, a baseball statistic. [(baseball) A statistic in baseball which equals the number of earned runs allowed per nine innings pitched.]
(electronics) Initialism of electrically reconfigurable array.
(military) Initialism of explosive reactive armor.
(UK, military) Initialism of engine room artificer., a Royal Navy position
(European Union, railways) Initialism of European Railway Agency (called today the European Union Agency for Railways)
(US) Initialism of Equal Rights Amendment.

Examples of "era" in Sentences

The next period was the Allotment Era.
Around that time it was the era of the cassette tapes.
The shogun retires and signals the time of the new era.
The host of the game chooses the campaign era and period.
Bring about a new era and end the humdrum one at present.
I opt for the simplicity of demarcating the eras by time era.
The present scarp landscape was formed during the Mesozoic era.
SD - Jake Peavy - 124 ip, 5.01 era, 3.53 fip, 82 era+, 12.3 vorp
STL - Jeff Suppan - 115.7 ip, 4.98 era, 5.04 fip, 90 era+, 7.1 vorp
The Permian Period is the last time period within the Paleozoic Era.
SD - Chan Ho Park - 126.3 ip, 4.63 era, 4.47 fip, 89 era+, 10.7 vorp
NYM - Tom Glavine - 136.7 ip, 3.69 era, 4.54 fip, 121 era+, 29.0 vorp
STL - Jason Marquis - 137.7 ip, 5.62 era, 5.66 fip, 80 era+, 4.3 vorp
CIN - Aaron Harang - 143.3 ip, 3.52 era, 3.22 fip, 129 era+, 33.1 vorp
This returned the court for a time to the conservatism of the Taft era.
NYM - Steve Trachsel - 110.3 ip, 5.14 era, 5.52 fip, 86 era+, 10.1 vorp
CIN - Elizardo Ramirez - 89.3 ip, 4.43 era, 4.22 fip, 102 era+, 9.9 vorp
CIN - Bronson Arroyo - 151.7 ip, 3.20 era, 3.94 fip, 142 era+, 44.5 vorp
It is the first epoch of the Palaeogene Period in the modern Cenozoic era.
Masato Yoshii (4.40 era, 100 era+) and Bobby Jones (5.06 era, 86 era+) were just as bad.