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epoch

/ˈɛp.ək/

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What does epoch mean?

noun

  1. A particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable.
  2. A notable event which marks the beginning of such a period.
  3. A specific instant in time, chosen as the point of reference or zero value of a system that involves identifying instants of time.
More meanings (4)

noun

  1. A geochronologic unit of hundreds of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of a period, and subdivided into ages (or sometimes subepochs).
  2. One complete presentation of the training data set to an iterative machine learning algorithm.
  3. An intensive chemotherapy regimen for treating aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma, consisting of etoposide, prednisolone, Oncovin (vincristine), cyclophosphamide, and hydroxydaunorubicin.

verb

  1. To divide (data) into segments by time period.

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IPA pronunciation

/ˈɛp.ək/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/ˈɛpˌɑk//ˈiˌpɑk//ˈeɪˌpɑk/
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About the epoch of the coronation, some petty affair connected with his curacy—just what, is not precisely known—took him to Paris.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
Constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones.
Karl Marx; Friedrich EngelsThe Communist ManifestoProject Gutenberg ebook #61
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A new epoch occurred in my character, when I published, and at the time I was writing, my Enquiry concerning Political Justice.
William GodwinThoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the AuthorProject Gutenberg ebook #743
For the historian of metaphysics, Socrates marks an epoch, but for the historian of science he is a much less consequential figure.
Henry Smith Williams; Edward Huntington WilliamsA History of Science — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #1705
Previous to this epoch all the pottery had been moulded by hand and baked in an imperfect manner in the open air.
Emory Adams AllenThe Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished RacesProject Gutenberg ebook #2873