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  2. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    Early modern period – The chronological limits of this period are open to debate. It emerges from the Late Middle Ages (c. 1500), demarcated by historians as beginning with the fall of Constantinople in 1453, in forms such as the Italian Renaissance in the West, the Ming dynasty in the East, and the rise of the Aztecs in the New World.

  3. Amarakosha - Wikipedia

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    Some sources indicate that he belonged to the period of Vikramaditya of the 7th century. [2] Mirashi examines the question of the date of composition of Amarakosha. He finds the first reliable mention in Amoghavritti of Shakatayana composed during the reign of Amoghavarsha (814-867 CE). [3]

  4. Era - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  6. Aeon - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Fortnight - Wikipedia

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    In astronomy, a lunar fortnight is half a lunar synodic month, which is equivalent to the mean period between a full moon and a new moon (and vice versa). This is equal to 14.07 days. [3] [4] It gives rise to a lunar fortnightly tidal constituent (see: Long-period tides).

  8. Epoch - Wikipedia

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    An epoch in astronomy is a reference time used for consistency in calculation of positions and orbits. A common astronomical epoch is J2000, which is noon on January 1, 2000, Terrestrial Time . An epoch in Geochronology is a period of time, typically in the order of tens of millions of years.

  9. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus or synonym dictionary lists similar or related words; these are often, but not always, synonyms. [15] The word poecilonym is a rare synonym of the word synonym. It is not entered in most major dictionaries and is a curiosity or piece of trivia for being an autological word because of its meta quality as a synonym of synonym.