Era vs. Epoch
Era and Epoch Definitions
Era
A period of time as reckoned from a specific date serving as the basis of its chronological system.
Epoch
A particular period of history, especially one considered remarkable or noteworthy.
Era
A period of time characterized by particular circumstances, events, or personages
The Colonial era of US history.
The Reagan era.
Epoch
A unit of geologic time that is a division of a period.
Era
The longest division of geologic time, made up of one or more periods.
Epoch
(Astronomy) An instant in time that is arbitrarily selected as a point of reference for specification of celestial coordinates.
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Era
A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
Epoch
A particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable.
Era
(geology) A geochronologic unit of tens to hundreds of millions of years; a subdivision of an eon, and subdivided into periods.
Epoch
A notable event which marks the beginning of such a period.
Era
A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.
The foundation of Solomon's temple is conjectured by Ideler to have been an era.
Epoch
A specific instant in time, chosen as the point of reference or zero value of a system that involves identifying instants of time.
Datum
UNIX epoch; J2000 epoch
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Era
A period of time reckoned from some particular date or epoch; a succession of years dating from some important event; as, the era of Alexander; the era of Christ, or the Christian era (see under Christian).
The first century of our era.
Epoch
(geology) A geochronologic unit of hundreds of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of a period, and subdivided into ages (or sometimes subepochs).
Era
A period of time in which a new order of things prevails; a signal stage of history; an epoch.
Painting may truly be said to have opened the new era of culture.
Epoch
(ML) One complete presentation of the training data set to an iterative machine learning algorithm.
The neural network was trained over 500 epochs.
Era
A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
Epoch
To divide (data) into segments by time period.
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Era
A major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods
Epoch
A fixed point of time, established in history by the occurrence of some grand or remarkable event; a point of time marked by an event of great subsequent influence; as, the epoch of the creation; the birth of Christ was the epoch which gave rise to the Christian era.
In divers ages, . . . divers epochs of time were used.
Great epochs and crises in the kingdom of God.
The acquittal of the bishops was not the only event which makes the 30th of June, 1688, a great epoch in history.
Epoch
A period of time, longer or shorter, remarkable for events of great subsequent influence; a memorable period; as, the epoch of maritime discovery, or of the Reformation.
The influence of Chaucer continued to live even during the dreary interval which separates from one another two important epochs of our literary history.
Epoch
A division of time characterized by the prevalence of similar conditions of the earth; commonly a minor division or part of a period.
The long geological epoch which stored up the vast coal measures.
Epoch
The date at which a planet or comet has a longitude or position.
The capture of Constantinople is an epoch in the history of Mahometanism; but the flight of Mahomet is its era.
Epoch
A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
Epoch
(astronomy) the precise date that is the point of reference for which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is referred
Epoch
A unit of geological time
