Word of the Day: Epoch

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noun 1. A period of time in history or a person's life, typically one marked by notable events or particular characteristics.
2. The beginning of a distinctive period in the history of someone or something.
3. (Geology) A division of time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself subdivided into ages, corresponding to a series in chronostratigraphy.
4. (Astronomy) An arbitrarily fixed date relative to which planetary or stellar measurements are expressed.
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Latin, early 17th century
Why This Word?
Carl Sagan said, "Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another." His use of the word "epoch" here is meant to imply vast stretches of time, but there is a nuance in the specific definition of "epoch." ...
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