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epoch
- IPA[ˈepək]
美式
- a period of time in history or a person's life, typically one marked by notable events or particular characteristics;the beginning of a distinctive period in the history of someone or something
noun: epoch, plural noun: epochs
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. a period of time in history or a person's life, typically one marked by notable events or particular characteristics the Victorian epoch
- ▪ the beginning of a distinctive period in the history of someone or something welfare reform was an epoch in the history of U.S. social policy
- ▪ a division of time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself subdivided into ages, corresponding to a series in chronostratigraphy the Pliocene epoch
- ▪ an arbitrarily fixed date relative to which planetary or stellar measurements are expressed.