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Depending on context, epoch can refer to:
[edit] A period of time
- a distinctive historical period or era
- a unit of the geologic time scale, less than a period and greater than an age
- a phase in the development of the universe with distinctive properties
[edit] A moment in time
- an instant of origin chosen as the epoch (reference date) from which time is measured in a calendar era or in a computer system.
- an epoch (astronomy), a moment in time for which celestial coordinates or orbital elements are specified.
- a step in the training process of an artificial neural network
[edit] As a proper noun
- The Epoch Game Pocket Computer, an early handheld game console
- Epoch (Chrono Trigger), a flying time machine in role-playing game Chrono Trigger
- Epoch (DC Comics), a supervillain also known as the Lord of Time
- The Epoch Times, a Falun Gong-linked Chinese newspaper
- The epoch in Unix timekeeping, 00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970.
- Epoch Javascript Calendar is an open source, GPL calendar component for use in web pages written in JavaScript
- EPOCH IPS, an integrated software suite that are used for satellite command and control
