Thesaurus: epochs
n. a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event n. (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is…
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- n. a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event n. (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded n. a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages