OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 10155

epoch

/ˈiːpɒk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
evo • época
A particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable.
And it occasionally happens that a period in which one had, hitherto, been mainly looking for the coming to birth of new things, suddenly reveals itself as an epoch of fading and d…
I grew bitter in my words—I believed the worst of everyone; nay, I sometimes doubted the affection of my kind, my indulgent parents. But let me hastily pass over this vain and prof…
época
A specific instant in time, chosen as the point of reference or zero value of a system that involves identifying instants of time.
Appendix A gives formulae for the calculation of the orbital elements of the planets at any time referred to the mean ecliptic and equinox of the epoch of noon on 1st January 2000;…
UNIX epoch; J2000 epoch
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