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Inglés (US)
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¿Cuál es la diferencia entre an age y a period y an era y an epoch ?Puedes dar oraciones como ejemplo.
¿Cuál es la diferencia entre an age y a period y an era y an epoch ?Puedes dar oraciones como ejemplo.
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- Inglés (US)
they are very similar, usually its just a matter of what is normal for what you're talking about. Length-wise it's something like age>epoch>era>period
So the stone age, the modern era...epoch doesn't come up a lot. Period is often a cultural time, the Renaissance period for example. To confuse everything there's also The Age of Enlightenment and things in europe... different fields define them a little differently, but really they are all just ways to talk about chunks of time
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- Inglés (US)
they are very similar, usually its just a matter of what is normal for what you're talking about. Length-wise it's something like age>epoch>era>period
So the stone age, the modern era...epoch doesn't come up a lot. Period is often a cultural time, the Renaissance period for example. To confuse everything there's also The Age of Enlightenment and things in europe... different fields define them a little differently, but really they are all just ways to talk about chunks of time
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Thank you for your detailed answer! I'm going to choose those words according to the definitions and the customs which are common to the discipline related to my writing text.
- Inglés (US) Casi fluido
age: the length of an existence extending from the beginning to any given time
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period: a portion of time determined by some recurring phenomenon
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era: a system of chronological notation computed from a given date as basis
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epoch: a : an event or a time marked by an event that begins a new period or development
b : a memorable event or date
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