epoch
A particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered…A particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable.
» His description of that epoch is fascinating.
Seine Beschreibung der Epoche ist faszinierend.
Meaning
5 sensesA particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable.
Epoche, Ära
эпо́хаepóxa, пери́одperíod, э́раéra
епо́хаepóxa
A notable event which marks the beginning of such a period.
a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
A specific instant in time, chosen as the point of reference or zero value of a system that involves identifying instants of time.
UNIX epoch; J2000 epoch
эпо́хаepóxa
A geochronologic unit of hundreds of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of a period, and subdivided into ages (or sometimes subepochs).
Epoche
эпо́хаepóxa
a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages
One complete presentation of the training data set to an iterative machine learning algorithm.
The neural network was trained over 500 epochs.
Examples
9 sentencesHis description of that epoch is fascinating.
deSeine Beschreibung der Epoche ist faszinierend.
His description of the epoch is fascinating.
deSeine Beschreibung der Epoche ist faszinierend.
That was the happiest epoch of my life.
From this standpoint history can be divided into two main epochs.
ruС этой точки зрения историю можно разделить на две основные эпохи.
The age of chivalry is the favourite epoch of the romantics.
deDie Ritterzeit ist die Lieblingsepoche der Romantiker.
Translations
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Origin
From Medieval Latin epocha, from Ancient Greek ἐποχή (epokhḗ, “a check, cessation, stop, pFrom Medieval Latin epocha, from Ancient Greek ἐποχή (epokhḗ, “a check, cessation, stop, pause, epoch of a star, i.e., the point at which it seems to halt after reaching the highest, and generally the place of a star; hence, a historical epoch”), from ἐπέχω (epékhō, “to hold in, check”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) + ἔχω (ékhō, “to have, hold”). Doublet of epoche.
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Forms
plural: epochsSynonyms
4 synonyms- (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded:date of reference
- a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event:era