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- epoch (plural epochs) 1  A particular period of history, especially one considered remarkable or noteworthy. 2012 January 1, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 70: Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse.
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Anthropocene Define Anthropocene. Anthropocene synonyms, Anthropocene pronunciation, Anthropocene translation, English dictionary definition of Anthropocene. n. The period of time during which human activities are thought to have had a significant impact on the global environment, regarded as having begun...
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CONSTRUCTION LOANS During the construction phase, payments are interest-only and start out small as you only pay on funds that have been disbursed. When construction is complete, you pay a large balloon payment for the full amount owed. On some loans, no payments are due until the house is completed.
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Definitions &Translations century(Noun) 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. The first century AD was from 1 to 100.
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period Geology. the basic unit of geologic time, during which a standard rock system is formed: comprising two or more epochs and included with other periods in an era. 17. Physics. the duration of one complete cycle of a wave or oscillation; the reciprocal of the frequency.
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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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- ‘We can even speak of the beginning of a new epoch.’ ‘Mrs Raistrick said the ceremony ‘marked an epoch in the educational history of Upper Wharfedale and, we hope, begins a new era of development and progress in education.’’ ‘With that a new epoch in the history of imperialism was introduced.’ ‘This is the beginning of a new epoch, the beginning of a new great democracy.’ Synonyms
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The Miocene Epoch (23-5 Million Years Ago) The Miocene was the first epoch of the Neogene period (23-2.5 million years ago), followed by the much shorter Pliocene epoch (5-2.6 million years ago); both the Neogene and Miocene are themselves subdivisions of the Cenozoic Era (65 million years ago to the present). Climate and geography.
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Epoch (reference date) The current standard epoch is called J2000.0. 1  This is defined by international agreement to be equivalent to: 2  The Gregorian date January 1, 2000 at approximately 12:00 GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). 3  The Julian date 2451545.0 TT (Terrestrial Time). 4  January 1, 2000, 11:59:27.816 TAI (International Atomic Time).
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Scientists say humans have now brought on an entirely new geologic epoch It’s perhaps only fitting, then, that the current paper hints that something much bigger than a mere shift into a new geologic epoch may be afoot. Epochs, after all, are relatively short periods in the grand geological scheme of things, when compared with larger units of time like eons, eras, and periods.
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Anthropocene Contemporary definitions for anthropocene Expand noun a term used to describe the current geological period, starting from the 18th century when human activities began to impact global climate and ecosystems
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epoch 3. (Astronomy) astronomy a precise date to which information, such as coordinates, relating to a celestial body is referred. 4. (Palaeontology) geology a unit of geological time within a period during which a series of rocks is formed: the Pleistocene epoch. 5.
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Dawn Age ―Bran Stark. The Dawn Age is an epoch in the history of The Known World. It was the first historical epoch, ending roughly 8,000 years ago and extending backwards into the mists of time before the age of mankind. Little information about it has survived, even in legends.
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About Us Epoch Times is a privately held news media company. Our network of local reporters throughout the world uncovers stories that are authentically local, yet also globally relevant. Our independence enables us to report widely and present a diversity of opinions. Our Purpose.
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Date/Epoch Converter 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. getTime returns the number of milliseconds elapsed, in your computer's timezone, since 1/1/1970 GMT.
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- So let's recap about the geologic time scale and how its divisions fit together. Epochs are the smallest divisions. Many epochs make up a period, many periods make up an era, and many eras make up an eon.
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datetime functions timestamp. Note: For datetime functions, the epoch starts on January 1, 2000. The default length of one year is 365.25 days. If datetime values are provided with time information only, the date is assumed to be the epoch.
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Anthropocene (Geological Science) the Anthropocene a proposed term for the present geological epoch (from the time of the Industrial Revolution onwards), during which humanity has begun to have a significant impact on the environment
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era era. n. 1. a period of time considered as being of a distinctive character; epoch. 2. an extended period of time the years of which are numbered from a fixed point or event: the Christian era. 3. a point in time, esp one beginning a new or distinctive period: the discovery of antibiotics marked an era in modern medicine.
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Pleistocene The Pleistocene is the epoch from 2,588,000 to 11,700 years BP that spans the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name Pleistocene' means 'Most New'. Both marine and continental faunas were essentially modern and many animals, specifically, mammals were much larger than their modern relatives.
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What is the difference between eras, periods, and epochs? There are 4 Eons on the geological time scale in total. Era - 12 total, spanning several hundred million years each. Period - a timespan longer than an Epoch, but shorter than an Era. Epoch - spans tens of millions of years each. All of these time spans relate events recorded in the stratigraphy to a certain point (or span) in the history of the Earth.
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ERA Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of era): day (an era of existence or influence) age; historic period (an era of history having some distinctive feature) modern era (the present or recent times)
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Definition of 'epoch' An epoch is a very long period of time in the earth's development, marked by particular physical or biological characteristics. [technical] Two main glacial epochs affected both areas during the last 100 million years of Precambrian times.
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- Definition of epoch - a particular period of time in history or a person's life Definition of epoch - a particular period of time in history or a person's life dictionary
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- Definition of dawn. 1  1 : the first appearance of light in the morning followed by sunrise danced till dawn at the crack of dawn Almost before the first faint sign of dawn appeared she arose again … — Thomas Hardy. 2  2 : beginning the dawn of the space age.
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era Era definition, a period of time marked by distinctive character, events, etc.: The use of steam for power marked the beginning of an era. See more.