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1.NounA particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable.
2.NounA notable event which marks the beginning of such a period.
3.NounA specific instant in time, chosen as the point of reference or zero value of a system that involves identifying instants of time."UNIX epoch; J2000 epoch"
4.NounA geochronologic unit of hundreds of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of a period, and subdivided into ages (or sometimes subepochs).
5.NounOne complete presentation of the training data set to an iterative machine learning algorithm."The neural network was trained over 500 epochs."
6.VerbTo divide (data) into segments by time period.