Explore Epoch through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like era or period. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Epoch meaning
- A particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable.
- A notable event which marks the beginning of such a period.
- A specific instant in time, chosen as the point of reference or zero value of a system that involves identifying instants of time.
Synonyms of Epoch
Using Epoch
- The main meaning on this page is: A particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable. | A notable event which marks the beginning of such a period. | A specific instant in time, chosen as the point of reference or zero value of a system that involves identifying instants of time.
- Useful related words include: era, time period, period of time, period.
- In the example corpus, epoch often appears in combinations such as: the epoch, epoch times, epoch of.
Context around Epoch
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Epoch
- In this selection, "epoch" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, pleistocene, oligocene, miocene, dates, started and moment stand out and add context to how "epoch" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include are covered epoch by epoch and away the epoch of reionization. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "epoch" sits close to words such as agitation, alec and bluff, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with epoch
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
That year, he was taught by Father George Epoch. (9 words)
More developments are covered epoch by epoch in the following sections. (11 words)
The Miocene follows the Oligocene Epoch and is followed by the Pliocene Epoch. (13 words)
And, most significantly, when you put the above historical facts side-by-side the governor-elect’s visit to the Minister of Mines and Steel, it shows him as a man who is in perfect cinque with the realities of that past epoch. (43 words)
The epoch moment or date is usually defined by a specific clear event, condition, or criterion the epoch event or epoch criterion from which the period or era or age is usually characterized or described. (35 words)
It’s an environmentally apocalyptic tale; the world is in the midst of tectonic plate shifts, and since the family appear Neanderthal, it must have be the Pleistocene Epoch shifting into the Holocene Epoch. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Epoch The epoch of the Julian calendar was on the Saturday before the Monday that was the epoch of the Gregorian calendar.
The epoch moment or date is usually defined by a specific clear event, condition, or criterion the epoch event or epoch criterion from which the period or era or age is usually characterized or described.
It’s an environmentally apocalyptic tale; the world is in the midst of tectonic plate shifts, and since the family appear Neanderthal, it must have be the Pleistocene Epoch shifting into the Holocene Epoch.
As the 20th century ends, there is reason to believe that a new philosophical epoch is dawning along with the new century, promising to be the richest epoch yet for human understanding.
As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.
More developments are covered epoch by epoch in the following sections.
Notable epoch dates in computing seeAlso The following table lists epoch dates used by popular software and other computer-related systems.
The Eocene spans the time from the end of the Palaeocene Epoch to the beginning of the Oligocene Epoch.
The Miocene follows the Oligocene Epoch and is followed by the Pliocene Epoch.
The Oligocene is preceded by the Eocene Epoch and is followed by the Miocene Epoch.
The photon epoch started after most leptons and anti-leptons were annihilated at the end of the lepton epoch, about 10 seconds after the Big Bang.
The Pliocene follows the Miocene Epoch and is followed by the Pleistocene Epoch.
A geologic task force is recommending to mark this new epoch’s start in the small but deep, pristine outside Toronto, Canada with a 'golden spike'.
And, most significantly, when you put the above historical facts side-by-side the governor-elect’s visit to the Minister of Mines and Steel, it shows him as a man who is in perfect cinque with the realities of that past epoch.
Astronomers like me call the first billion years of the universe—when this hydrogen fog was burning away—the epoch of reionization.
Called the Anthropocene—and derived from the Greek terms for "human" and "new"—this epoch started sometime between 1950 and 1954, according to the scientists.
Epoch Investment Partners Inc. lessened its stake in shares of PTC Inc. () by 82.4% in the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC.
Pope Benedict’s lifestyle, especially is epoch-making resignation as head of the Vatican, is particularly significant to Nigerians.
That year, he was taught by Father George Epoch.
The Epoch Times contacted the NEH about the grant but received no response.
Common combinations with epoch
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the epoch 67×
- epoch times 64×
- epoch of 16×
- epoch the 10×
- epoch in 10×
- pleistocene epoch 8×
- epoch and 8×
- and epoch 8×
- this epoch 7×
- new epoch 6×