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General periods. Geologic Time – Period prior to humans. 4.6 billion to 3 million years ago. (See "prehistoric periods" for more detail into this.) Primatomorphid Era – Period prior to the existence of Primatomorpha. Simian Era – Period prior to the existence of Simiiformes. Hominoid Era – Period prior to the existence of Hominoidea.
Fortnight. A fortnight is a unit of time equal to 14 days (two weeks ). The word derives from the Old English term fēowertīene niht, meaning " fourteen nights " (or "fourteen days", since the Anglo-Saxons counted by nights). [ 1][ 2]
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. [1] [2] [3] It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events or the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the ...
An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography, as in the regnal eras in the history of a given monarchy, a calendar era used for a given calendar, or the geological eras defined for the history of Earth. [1] Comparable terms are epoch, age, period, saeculum, aeon (Greek aion) [2] and Sanskrit yuga. [3]
The geologic time scale is a way of representing deep time based on events that have occurred throughout Earth's history, a time span of about 4.54 ± 0.05 Ga (4.54 billion years). [ 5] It chronologically organises strata, and subsequently time, by observing fundamental changes in stratigraphy that correspond to major geological or ...
The Holocene ( / ˈhɒl.əsiːn, - oʊ -, ˈhoʊ.lə -, - loʊ -/) [ 2][ 3] is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago. [ 4] It follows the Last Glacial Period, which concluded with the Holocene glacial retreat. [ 4] The Holocene and the preceding Pleistocene [ 5] together form the Quaternary period.
According to Christian universalism, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word aión (αἰών) to mean a long period and the word aiṓnion (αἰώνιον) to mean "during a long period"; [7] thus, there was a time before the aeons, and the aeonian period is finite. After each person's mortal life ends, they are judged worthy of ...
A millennium (pl. millennia or millenniums) is a period of one thousand years, [1] [2] sometimes called a kiloannum (ka), or kiloyear (ky).Normally, the word is used specifically for periods of a thousand years that begin at the starting point (initial reference point) of the calendar in consideration and at later years that are whole number multiples of a thousand years after the start point.