Definition of Epoch

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Definition of Epoch

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.

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.

A division of time characterized by the prevalence of similar conditions of the earth; commonly a minor division or part of a period.

The date at which a planet or comet has a longitude or position.

An arbitrary fixed date, for which the elements used in computing the place of a planet, or other heavenly body, at any other date, are given; as, the epoch of Mars; lunar elements for the epoch March 1st, 1860.

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Epoch Quotations

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
Karl Marx

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
Gertrude Stein

The obscurest epoch is today.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
Karl Lagerfeld

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
Edmund Husserl

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
Thomas Mann

The human mind, I believe, cares for the True only in the general character of an epoch.
Alfred de Vigny

We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things.
David Cronenberg

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
Harriet Ann Jacobs

Epoch Translations

epoch in Danish is epoke
epoch in Dutch is tijdsgewricht, tijdperk
epoch in Finnish is ajanjakso
epoch in German is Epoche
epoch in Hungarian is korszak, kor
epoch in Italian is epoca
epoch in Latin is tempus temporis
epoch in Swedish is epok, tid

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