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• EPOCH (Gr. E7roxij, holding in suspense, a pause, from E1rxav, to hold up, to stop)

EPOCH (Gr. E7roxij, holding in suspense, a pause, from E1rxav, to hold up, to stop)  , a See also:

• TERM

term for a stated See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time, and so used of a date accepted as the starting-point of an era or of a new period in See also:

• CHRONOLOGY (Gr. xpovo?oyfa, computation of time, xp6vos)

chronology, such as the See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth of See also:

• CHRIST (Gr. X pLQTOS, Anointed)
• CHRIST, WILHELM VON (1831-1906)

Christ . It is hence transferred to a period which marks a See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change, whether in the See also:

• HISTORY

history of a See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country or a See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science, such as a great See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery or invention . Thus an event may be spoken of as " See also:

• EPOCH (Gr. E7roxij, holding in suspense, a pause, from E1rxav, to hold up, to stop)

epoch-making." The word is also used, synonymously with " period," for any space of time marked by a distinctive See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition or by a particular See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of events . In See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy the word is used for a moment from which time is measured, or at which a definite position of a See also:

• BODY

body or a definite relation of two bodies occurs . For example, the position of a body moving in an See also:

• ORBIT (from Lat. orbita, a track, orbis, a wheel)

orbit cannot be determined unless its position at some given time is known . The given time is then the epoch; but the term is often applied to the mean See also:

• LONGITUDE (from Lat. longitudo, " length ")

longitude of the body at the given time .