epoch
US: /ˈɛpək/, /ˈipək/
UK: /ˈɛpɒk/
UK: /ˈɛpɒk/
English Vietnamese dictionary
epoch /'i:pɔk/
- danh từ
- sự bắt đầu của một kỷ nguyên (trong lịch sử, trong đời...)
- to make an epoch: mở ra một kỷ nguyên
- sự bắt đầu của một kỷ nguyên (trong lịch sử, trong đời...)
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun (formal or literary)
1 a period of time in history, especially one during which important events or changes happen: The death of the emperor marked the end of an epoch in the country's history.
2 (technical) a long period of time in the world's history or in the earth's development: geological epochs
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
new | present | past | historical
VERB + EPOCH
mark
The dropping of the first atom bomb marked a new epoch in warfare.
PREP.
during/in an/the ~
the importance of the computer in the present epoch
| ~ of
an epoch of great social change
PHRASES
the beginning/end of an epoch
Concise English dictionary
epochs'iːpɒk
noun
+a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
+(astronomy) the precise date that is the point of reference for which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is referred
+a unit of geological time
