epoch
/ˈɛp.ək/ verb C2- To divide (data) into segments by time period.
He/she/it epochs · Past epoched · Past participle epoched · -ing form epoching
Verb forms
- Base form
- epoch
- He/she/it
- epochs
- Past
- epoched
- Past participle
- epoched
- -ing form
- epoching
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He was, if I recollect, arrested in a tavern, in company with a great many others.” Then he added, “Monsieur, you may rest assured I shall perform my duty impartially, and that if he be innocent you shall not have appealed to me in vain; should he, however, be guilty, in this present epoch, impunity would furnish a dangerous example, and I must do my duty.”
Caulfield Gardens was one of those lines of flat-faced pillared, and porticoed houses which are so prominent a product of the middle Victorian epoch in the West End of London.
An Epoch in Anne’s Life
“I’ve had a splendid time,” she concluded happily, “and I feel that it marks an epoch in my life.
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