A period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event.

synoniem: epoch.

Roget 108: period, age, era; second, minute, hour, day, week, month, quarter, year, decade, decenniumm lustrum^†, quinquennium, lifetime, generation; epoch, ghurry^†, lunation^†, moon.    century, millennium; annus magnus [Lat.].    ... meer laten zien

Roget 114: chronometry, horometry^†, horology; date, epoch; style, era.    almanac, calendar, ephemeris; register, registry; chronicle, annals, journal, diary.    [Instruments for the measurement of time] chronogram; clock, wall clock, pendulum clock, grandfather's clock, cuckoo clock, alarm clock, clock radio; watch, wristwatch, pocket watch, stopwatch, Swiss watch; atomic clock, digital clock, analog clock, quartz watch, water clock; chronometer, chronoscope^†, chronograph; repeater; timekeeper, timepiece; dial, sundial, gnomon, horologe, pendulum, hourglass, clepsydra^†; ghurry^†.    chronographer^†, chronologer, chronologist, timekeeper; annalist.    calendar year, leap year, Julian calendar, Gregorian calendar, Chinese calendar, Jewish calendar, perpetual calendar, Farmer's almanac, fiscal year.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 106: time, duration; period, term, stage, space, span, spell, season; the whole time, the whole period; space-time; course etc. 109; snap.    intermediate time, while, interim, interval, pendency^†; intervention, intermission, intermittence, interregnum, interlude; respite.    era, epoch; time of life, age, year, date; decade etc. (period) 108; moment, etc. (instant) 113.    glass of time, sands of time, march of time, Father Time, ravages of time; arrow of time; river of time, whirligig of time, noiseless foot of time; scythe.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: eeuw, era, tijd, tijdperk, tijdvak

A major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods.

synoniem: geological era.

Nederlands: periode, era, tijdrekening, tijdperk
Pools: era

baseball A measure of a pitcher's effectiveness; calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched.

synoniem: earned run average.