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Epoch
[magazine] Epoch is a three-times-a-year American literary magazine founded in 1947 and published by Cornell University. The widely respected magazine has published well-known authors and award-winning work including stories reprinted in The Best American Short Stories series and poems later...
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Epoch
[film] Epoch is a 2001 science fiction film directed by Matt Codd, starring David Keith, Stephanie Niznik, Brian Thompson and, Shannon Lee. In it, a strange monolith is discovered, and the team sent to study it encounters repeated disasters. ==Marketing== On November 24, 2001, the Sci Fi Cha...
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Epoch
[Marvel Comics] Epoch is a fictional cosmic entity in the Marvel Comics universe. ==Fictional character biography== Epoch is the "daughter" of Eon and "granddaughter" of Eternity.{Issue|date=October 2011} ...
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Epoch
[DC Comics] Epoch, also known as The Lord of Time, is a comic book fictional character published by DC Comics. He first appeared in Justice League of America #10 (March 1962) and was created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Mike Sekowsky. An immensely powerful being from the year 3786, the L...
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Epoch
[geology] In geochronology, an epoch is a subdivision of the geologic timescale that is longer than an age and shorter than a period. We are currently living in the Holocene epoch of the Quaternary period. Rock layers deposited during an epoch are called a series. Series are subdivisions of ...
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EPOCH
acronym: European Programme on Climate and Hazards (EEC)
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Epoch
An epoch is a division of a geologic period; it is the smallest division of geologic time, lasting several million years.
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epoch
[n] - (astronomy) the precise date that is the point of reference for which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is referred 2. [n] - a unit of geological time
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Epoch
An instant in time for which the positions of celestial objects are given.
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Epoch
Ep'och (ĕp'ŏk or ē'pŏk; 277) noun [ Late Latin epocha , Greek 'epochh` check, stop, an epoch of a star, an historical epoch, from 'epe`chein to hold on, check; 'epi` upon + ...
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epoch
1. A fixed point of time, established in history by the occurrence of some grand or remarkable event; a point of time marked by an event of great subsequent influence; as, the epoch of the creation; the birth of Christ was the epoch which gave rise to the Christian era. 'In divers ages, . . . Divers...
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epoch
noun (astronomy) the precise date that is the point of reference for which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is referred
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Epoch
• (n.) A division of time characterized by the prevalence of similar conditions of the earth; commonly a minor division or part of a period. • (n.) An arbitrary fixed date, for which the elements used in computing the place of a planet, or other heavenly body, at any other date, are given;...
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epoch
(from the article `time`) ...purposes. Although defining time presents difficulties, measuring it does not; it is the most accurately measured physical quantity. A time ...
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epoch
unit of geological time during which a rock series is deposited. It is a subdivision of a geological period and the word is capitalized when ...
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epoch
in Greek philosophy,`suspension of judgment,` a principle originally espoused by nondogmatic philosophical Skeptics of the ancient Greek Academy ... [7 related articles]
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Epoch
each period of the standard geologic time scale is divided into epochs (e.g., Pleistocene Epoch of the Quaternary Period).
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epoch
1. Early PL/I. 2. Experimental Programming Language. 3. Eden Programming Language. U Washington. Based on Concurrent Euclid and used with the Eden distributed OS. Influenced Emerald and Distributed Smalltalk. 'EPL Programmer's Guide', A. Black et al, U Washington June 1984. 4. Equational Programm...
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Epoch
[astronomy] In astronomy, an epoch is a moment in time used as a reference point for some time-varying astronomical quantity, such as celestial coordinates, or elliptical orbital elements of a celestial body, where these are (as usual) subject to perturbations and vary with time. The time-va...
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Epoch
[reference date] In the fields of chronology and periodization, an epoch is an instance in time chosen as the origin of a particular era. The "epoch" then serves as a reference point from which time is measured. Time measurement units are counted from the epoch so that the date and time of e...
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Epoch
Geologic time unit that is shorter than a period.
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epoch
a measure of time used in astronomy. In an epoch system, times are specified as years and fractions of years (such as epoch 1998.5). To set a starting point for the system, a specific epoch time must be fixed as a particular clock time of a particular date. In 1984, the International Astronomical Un...
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epoch
a unit of time equal to 19 years, used in predictions of the tides. In this use, an epoch is another name for a Metonic cycle. All possible alignments of the sun and moon occur in this 19-year cycle, so tidal heights and other tidal phenomena are averaged over this period.
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epoch
The time and date at which an astronomical observation is made (epoch of observation), or the date for which orbital elements (epoch of elements) or the positions of celestial objects are calculated. Specifying the epoch is important because the apparent positions of objects in the sky change gradua...
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epoch
epoch, unit of geologic time that is a subdivision of a period. The Pleistocene and Holocene epochs, for example, are divisions of the Quaternary period. Epoch is also used to describe a short length of geologic time during a special occurrence, such as the glacial epoch. See geology; Geologic Times...
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