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								a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event 2.
								(astronomy) the precise date that is the point of reference for which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is referred
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								a unit of geological time
 
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		| Variations of 'epoch' |  
		| date
					
		
									
		geologic time
									
		
									
		geological time
									
		
					
		period
					
		
									
		period of time
									
		
									
		time period |  
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