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

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 707 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EMS-EUD
EPOCH (Gr. E7roxij, holding in suspense, a pause, from E1rxav, to hold up, to stop) , a
term
  for a stated period of time, and so used of a date accepted as the starting-point of an era or of a new period in chronology, such as the
birth
  of Christ. It is hence transferred to a period which marks a
great
 
change
 , whether in the history of a country or a science, such as a
great
  discovery or invention. Thus an event may be spoken of as " epoch-making." The word is also used, synonymously with " period," for any space of time marked by a distinctive
condition
  or by a particular
series
  of events.
In astronomy the word is used for a moment from which time is measured, or at which a definite position of a
body
  or a definite relation of two bodies occurs. For example, the position of a
body
  moving in an 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 longitude of the body at the given time.


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