Betekenis van:
epoch

epoch
Zelfstandig naamwoord
  • tijdeenheid één lager in rang dan eon
  • a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event

Synoniemen

Hyperoniemen

Hyponiemen

epoch
Zelfstandig naamwoord
    • a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages

    Hyperoniemen

    epoch
    Zelfstandig naamwoord
      • (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded

      Synoniemen

      Hyperoniemen


      Voorbeeldzinnen

      1. There have always been fashionable faces and expressions which marked an epoch.
      2. A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.