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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
epoch /ˈiːpɒk, ˈɛpɒk/
▶noun a particular period of time in history.
■ the beginning of a period in the history of someone or something.
■ Geology a division of time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself subdivided into ages, corresponding to a series.
■ Astronomy an arbitrarily fixed date relative to which planetary or stellar measurements are expressed.
– derivatives
epochal adjective.
epochal adjective.
– origin C17 (in the L. form epocha): from mod. L. epocha, from Gk epokhē ‘stoppage, fixed point of time’, from epekhein ‘stop, take up a position’.
'epoch' also found in these Oxford entries:
age
- Archaean
- Archean
- Atlantic
- boreal
- Cainozoic
- Cambrian
- Carboniferous
- Cenozoic
- Corallian
- Cretaceous
- Devonian
- dryas
- Eocene
- epoch-making
- era
- glacial period
- glaciation
- Hercynian
- Holocene
- hyracotherium
- ice age
- interglacial
- interstadial
- Jurassic
- K/T boundary
- Lewisian
- lias
- mammoth
- Mesozoic
- Miocene
- Mississippian
- Neogene
- Oligocene
- Ordovician
- Palaeocene
- Palaeogene
- Palaeozoic
- Pennsylvanian
- Permian
- Phanerozoic
- Pleistocene
- Pliocene
- postglacial
- Preboreal
- Precambrian
- primary
- Proterozoic
- quaternary
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