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era

noun
/ˈɪə.ɹə/UK/iə.ɹə//ˈɛɹ.ə/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin aera.

  1. borrowed from aera

Definitions

  1. A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.

    • Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.

  2. A geochronologic unit of tens to hundreds of millions of years

    A geochronologic unit of tens to hundreds of millions of years; a subdivision of an eon, and subdivided into periods.

  3. An indefinite period of time in one’s life characterized by a particular interest.

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. Initialism of Earth rotation angle (the rotation of the Earth from the Celestial…

      Initialism of Earth rotation angle (the rotation of the Earth from the Celestial Intermediate Origin that has no instantaneous motion along the equator.)

    2. Initialism of earned run average, a baseball statistic.

      • Taylor, listed at 6-foot-3 and 230 pounds, went 0-1 with a 1.01 ERA in 15 games for Birmingham. He struck out 37 in 26 2/3 innings.

    3. Initialism of electrically reconfigurable array.

    4. Initialism of explosive reactive armor.

    5. Initialism of engine room artificer, a Royal Navy position.

    6. Initialism of European Railway Agency, called today the European Union Agency for…

      Initialism of European Railway Agency, called today the European Union Agency for Railways.

    7. Initialism of Equal Rights Amendment, a proposed amendment to the US Constitution.

      • ERA meant the equality of women, to those who urgently sought it, to those who abhorred it, and to those who found it obvious if not entirely redundant.

    8. Initialism of Employment Rights Act.

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Derived

beautiful era, bubble era, classical era, dead-ball era, era-defining, era name, Fleabag era, flop era, geologic era, golden era, live-ball era, modern era, our era, Planck era, rainbow era

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at era. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01era02millions03million04cardinal05natural06descent07passage08paragraph09newspaper10today

A definitional loop anchored at era. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at era

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA