Definitions for epoch

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epoch ep·och

Spelling: [ep-uh k or, esp. British, ee-pok]

IPA: /ˈɛp ək or, esp. British, ˈi pɒk/

Epoch is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in epoch (cehop).

Definitions for epoch

noun

1. a particular period of time marked by distinctive features, events, etc.:
2. the beginning of a distinctive period in the history of anything:
3. a point of time distinguished by a particular event or state of affairs; a memorable date:
4. Geology. any of several divisions of a geologic period during which a geologic series is formed. Compare age (def 12).
5. Astronomy. an arbitrarily fixed instant of time or date, usually the beginning of a century or half century, used as a reference in giving the elements of a planetary orbit or the like. the mean longitude of a planet as seen from the sun at such an instant or date.
6. Physics. the displacement from zero at zero time of a body undergoing simple harmonic motion.

Origin of epoch

1605-15; New Latin epocha Greek epochḗ pause, check, fixed time, equivalent to ep- ep- + och- (variant stem of échein to have) + -ē noun suffix

Examples for epoch

But in this country and at this epoch this is exactly what it has not got.

No epoch of time can claim a copyright in these immortal fables.

Since that epoch, all the titularies of this position have borne the title of Go-Chi.

The mail, at this epoch, was very different from what it is at present.

In a word, at this epoch Christianity was not only a religion but a Church.

With this, the second epoch of the history of Freeland may be regarded as closed.

As I said, Balzac wrote about an epoch that is curiously like our own.

But at that epoch I did not admire anything belonging to the Germans.

At the same time, it is the hallmark of brilliant people whatever their civilization, epoch, or area of expertise.

Prague Fatale is authentic because Kerr can muffle the horror of this epoch in dramatic irony but he can also shout it out loud.