/ˈiːpɒk/, /ˈɛpɒk/, /ˈɛpək/
OriginFrom Medieval Latin epocha, from Ancient Greek ἐποχή (epokhḗ, “a check, cessation, stop, pause, epoch of a star, i.e., the point at which it seems to halt after reaching the highest, and generally the place of a star; hence, a historical epoch”), from ἐπέχω (epékhō, “I hold in, check”), from ἐπι- (epi-, “upon”) + ἔχω (ékhō, “I have, hold”). Doublet of epoche.
- A particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable.
“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 profitless epoch,—the fi”
“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 decay.”
- A notable event which marks the beginning of such a period.
- A specific instant in time, chosen as the point of reference or zero value of a system that involves identifying instants of time.
“UNIX epoch; J2000 epoch”
“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; this is called the ”
“There are two major epoch times associated with most timestamps: 1970-01-01 00:00:00 and 1601-01-01 00:00:00. The first, starting in 1970, is traditionally referred to as POSIX time as it is a common ”
- A geochronologic unit of hundreds of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of a period, and subdivided into ages (or sometimes subepochs).
“Now during the time of the glacial epoch the greatest distance of the sun in winter was 98¼ millions of miles, whereas it is now, in winter, only 91½ millions of miles, the mean distance being taken a”
“Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance o”
- One complete presentation of the training data set to an iterative machine learning algorithm.
“The neural network was trained over 500 epochs.”
“For now, let's test and evaluate our GAN by comparing the results from the first epoch with the generated images from the last epoch.”
- uncountableAn intensive chemotherapy regimen for treating aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma, consisting of etoposide, prednisolone, Oncovin (vincristine), cyclophosphamide, and hydroxydaunorubicin.
- transitiveTo divide (data) into segments by time period.
“The continuous data were epoched into segments of 1500 ms (starting 500 ms before visual stimulus onset), time-locked to stimulus onset (0 ms) and sorted according to experimental conditions.”
Formsepochs(plural) · epocha(alternative) · epochs(present, singular, third-person) · epoching(participle, present) · epoched(participle, past) · epoched(past)