define epoch.
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epoch epoch (ˈiːpɒk) n 1. a point in time beginning a new or distinctive period: the invention of nuclear weapons marked an epoch in the history of warfare.
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The Miocene Epoch (23-5 Million Years Ago) The Miocene epoch marks the stretch of geologic time when prehistoric life (with some notable exceptions in South America and Australia) substantially resembled the flora and fauna of recent history, due in part to the long-term cooling of the earth's climate.
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Pleistocene Epoch: Facts About the Last Ice Age View full size image. The Pleistocene Epoch is typically defined as the time period that began about 1.8 million years ago and lasted until about 11,700 years ago. The most recent Ice Age occurred then, as glaciers covered huge parts of the planet Earth.
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Definitions &Translations Era. An era is a commonly used word for a long period of time. When used in science, for example geology, an era denotes a clearly defined period of time of arbitrary but well-defined length, such as for example the Mesozoic Era from 252 Ma–66 Ma, delimited by a start event and an end event.hen used in science, for example geology, an era denotes a clearly defined period of time of arbitrary but well-defined length, such as for example the Mesozoic Era from 252 Ma–66 Ma, delimited by a start event and an end event.
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- : of, relating to, or being the earlier epoch of the Quaternary or the corresponding series of rocks — see geologic time table. — Pleistocene noun. See Pleistocene defined for kids. ADVERTISEMENT.
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- century (plural centuries) 1  A period of 100 consecutive years; often specifically a numbered period with conventional start and end dates, e.g., the twentieth century, which stretches from (strictly) 1901 through 2000, or (informally) 1900 through 1999.
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Century A century (from the Latin centum, meaning one hundred; abbreviated c.) is a period of 100 years. Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages. For example, the 17th century refers to the years from 1601 to 1700.
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Date/Epoch Converter Because epoch is measured in seconds, you then want to divide the return value by 1000 to change milliseconds into seconds. Keep in mind that the JavaScript Date object will get it's time from your computer's clock. Here's a really simple example doing this. Click to Show Current Epoch Time.
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- Translations. 1  Arabic: عَصْر‏‎ m (ʿaṣr), عُصُور‏‎ m pl (ʿuṣūr), زَمَان‏‎ m (zamān) 2  Armenian: դարաշրջան (hy) (darašrǰan), դար (hy) (dar), ժամանակաշրջան (hy) (žamanakašrǰan) 3  Bulgarian: епоха (bg) f (epoha) 4  Catalan: època f. 5  Chinese: Mandarin: 時代 (zh), 时代 (zh) (shídài) 6  Czech: epocha f. 7  Esperanto: epoko.
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- Epoch (astronomy) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. In astronomy, an epoch is a moment in time used as a reference point for some time-varying astronomical quantity, such as the celestial coordinates or elliptical orbital elements of a celestial body, because these are subject to perturbations and vary with time.
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Pleistocene The Pleistocene /ˈplaɪstɵsiːn/ (symbol P. ) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. Charles Lyell introduced this term in 1839 to describe strata in Sicily that had at least 70% of their molluscan fauna still living today.
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Pleistocene Pleis·to·cene. The earlier of the two epochs of the Quaternary Period, from about 2 million to 10,000 years ago. The Pleistocene Epoch was characterized by the formation of widespread glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere and by the appearance of humans.
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- The word combines the root anthropo, meaning human with the root -cene, the standard suffix for epoch in geologic time. The Anthropocene is distinguished as a new period either after or within the Holocene, the current epoch, which began approximately 10,000 years ago (about 8000 BC) with the end of the last glacial period.
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Date/Epoch Converter It's likely that you are off by some amount, probably the offset for your own local timezone. First off, the easiest way to get the current time in epoch (using JavaScript), is to call getTime() method of the JavaScript Date object and divide the return value by 1000.
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- : of, relating to, or being the earlier epoch of the Quaternary or the corresponding series of rocks — see geologic time table. — Pleistocene noun. See Pleistocene defined for kids.
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century Definition of century for English Language Learners. : 1  a period of 100 years. : 2  a period of 100 years counted from the beginning of the Christian era.
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- The conference chairman kept referring to the Holocene, the epoch that began at the end of the last ice age, 11,500 years ago, and that—officially, at least—continues to this day. 'Let's stop it,' Crutzen recalls blurting out. 'We are no longer in the Holocene. We are in the Anthropocene.' Well, it was quiet in the room for a while.
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beginning These nouns denote the initial stage of a developmental process: the beginning of a new era in technology; the birth of the industrial economy; the dawn of civilization; the genesis of quantum mechanics; the nascence of classical sculpture; the rise and decline of an ancient city-state.
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- Epoch when first apes appeared - Crossword clues, answers and solutions - Global Clue website
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Pleistocene Pleis•to•cene. 1. of or pertaining to the geologic epoch forming the earlier half of the Quaternary Period, beginning about two million years ago and ending ten thousand years ago, the time of the last Ice Age and the advent of modern humans. 2. the Pleistocene Epoch or Series.
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Definitions &Translations Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: 1  era, epoch(noun) a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event. 2  era, geological era(noun) a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods.
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- Definition of PLEISTOCENE. : of, relating to, or being the earlier epoch of the Quaternary or the corresponding series of rocks — see geologic time table. — Pleistocene noun. See Pleistocene defined for kids.
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era The definition of an era is a period of time in history that is unified by cultural or historical factors. An example of an era is the industrial era. 1  a system of reckoning time by numbering the years from some important occurrence or given point of time: the Christian Era.  an event or date that marks the beginning of a new or important period in the history of something.
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Date/Epoch Converter Two good tests are, checking your results against today (using the current epoch from getTime/1000 for example), and 0 time. First off, the easiest way to get the current time in epoch (using JavaScript), is to call getTime() method of the JavaScript Date object and divide the return value by 1000.
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- 1 a system of reckoning time by numbering the years from some important occurrence or given point of time: the Christian Era.  an event or date that marks the beginning of a new or important period in the history of something.
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- It is the epoch we may now be living in. It is supposed to be the epoch in which humans have become so widespread that we have had a major impact on the world's ecosystems. It… was first introduced a few years back and the geological societies are considering adding it to the geologic time scale.