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								(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 2.
								a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
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								a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods
 
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