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Epoch Period Time Marked ˈiːpɒk ˈepək Noun N Count

This flashcard defines "epoch" as a significant period of time in history marked by important events or changes, or a specific division within geological time. Examples include "Victorian epoch" and "geological epochs."

This flashcard defines "epoch" as a significant period of time in history marked by important events or changes, or a specific division within geological time. Examples include "Victorian epoch" and "geological epochs."

word epoch
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/i͟ːpɒk, AM e̱pək/
1
[N-COUNT 可数名词]时代;纪元 If you refer to a long period of time as an epoch, you mean that important events or great changes took place during it.
  [usu with supp]
  • The birth of Christ was the beginning of a major epoch of world history.

    基督诞生是世界历史上一个重要纪元的开端。

2
[N-COUNT 可数名词](地质中的)世,纪,期 An epoch is a very long period of time in the earth's development, marked by particular physical or biological characteristics.
  [usu supp N]
  [TECHNICAL 术语]
  • Two main glacial epochs affected both areas during the last 100 million years of Precambrian times.

    在前寒武纪的最后1亿年中,两个主要的冰川时期对两个地区都产生了影响。


Oxford epoch / ˈiːpɒk ; NAmE ˈepək / noun ( formal or literary) 1 a period of time in history, especially one during which important events or changes happen 时代;纪元;时期 SYN
era
The death of the emperor marked the end of an epoch in the country's history. 皇帝驾崩标志着该国历史上一个时代的结束。
2 ( geology ) a length of time which is a spanision of a period 世(地质年代,纪下分世) geological epochs 地质世 epoch epochs
epoch / ˈiːpɒk ; NAmE ˈepək /
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epoche‧poch /ˈiːpɒk $ ˈepək/ noun [countable]
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a period of history SYN  era:  the Victorian epoch The king’s death marked the end of an epoch. the beginning of a new epoch see thesaurus at
period
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epoch

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时代(64%),时期(24%),新纪元(10%),划时代的大事(2%)
n.[地质] 世;新纪元;新时代;时间上的一点

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