Epoch

Depending on context, epoch can refer to:

Period of time

• a distinctive historical period or era
• a unit of the geologic timescale, less than a period and greater than an age
• a phase in the development of the universe with distinctive properties

Moment in time

An Epoch signifies a significant event, time, or moment which is chosen as a new origin for time measurements, usually as the delimiting factor of an era:

• References to such may include Epochal date, Epochal event, Epochal moment
• epoch (astronomy, and Epochal moment regard a precise moment in time for which celestial coordinates or orbital elements are specified.

Time benchmark in Computing

• a step in the training process of an artificial neural network.
• Unix epoch]

=See also

• Dispensational Adjudication