epoch

Words with a similar base: epoch

'epoch'

[era.n.01] as in: a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event

'epoch'

[epoch.n.02] as in: (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded

'epoch'

[epoch.n.03] as in: a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages

Origins

					epoch (English)
└── epocha (Latin)
    └── ἐποχή (Ancient Greek (to 1453))
        ├── ἐπέχειν (Ancient Greek (to 1453))
        └── ἐπέχω (Ancient Greek (to 1453))

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