(n.) A period of immeasurable duration; also, an emanation of the Deity. See Eon.
(n.) An immeasurable or infinite space of time; eternity; a long space of time; an age.
(n.) One of the embodiments of the divine attributes of the Eternal Being.
Example Sentences:
(1) Being without one for aeons – a day – made me realise how much I rely on it.
(2) The £40m dowry will be used to refurbish stores as Aeon outlets with the cash helping to preserve employment of Tesco's nearly 1,000 workforce.
(3) After the acres of print and aeons of time spent discussing the extremist takeover of the Labour party, a more pressing matter has been left more or less ignored.
(4) It seems an aeon since Ellen DeGeneres generated so much controversy for coming out as a lesbian on her TV show in 1997.
(5) In real-life terms, 16 years is aeons – certainly enough to break off a 12-year engagement, meet the father of my children, give birth to those children; lose my wonderful stepdad to a stroke, offer to be a surrogate mum; see my sister marry, divorce and fall in love again; experience my brother and his wife having a beautiful son; and buy one of those tremendous trampolines for the garden.
(6) Their bible is the International Chronostratigraphic Chart , the beautiful document that archives Earth history from the present back to the “informal” aeon of the Hadean, between 4bn and 4.6bn years ago (“informal” because vanishingly little is known about it).
(7) The smoke hung in the air for a small aeon before wind and the encroaching darkness removed the stain from the sky.
(8) Their specialism is the division of deep time into aeons, eras, periods, epochs and stages, and the establishment of temporal limits for those divisions and their subdivisions.
(9) 3.44pm BST 73rd over: England 161-7 (Ali 52, Jordan 1) Two slips, a silly point and a short leg, as Herath comes into Jordan, who doesn't see him as early as Prior or Ali - each block seems hurried - and then a jaffa bounces and spinds past the outside edge, aeons and hectares too good for him.
(10) It is not now, so clearly the climate has changed since aeons ago.
(11) "We are very pleased to announce this deal with Aeon and are confident this will deliver the best outcome for our staff and for our shareholders," said Clarke.
(12) This is an abridged version of an essay that appears in the digital-only magazine Aeon
(13) Aeon is expected to buy the rest of the shares in Tesco Japan in the autumn.
(14) Still, on it plods, aeons passing with every will-sapping shot of Alfie crying in a doorway, his cuckolded jowls flapping like windsocks.
(15) Trying to call a cab from one of the two main services is equally frustrating: you listen to Elton John for 20 minutes while holding an operator, then wait a further aeon or two for a recorded message to the effect that there no cabs available in your sector at the moment, and could you please call back later.
(16) It was as well behaved an opening to a game as these rivals have managed for aeons.
(17) Yet the tax system is full of such weirdnesses, and has been ever since married couples rightly stopped being taxed jointly, aeons ago.
(18) It's a swanky address but, as she points out, she bought it aeons ago, when even such lowly forms of life as political activists and freelance journalists could still afford a piece of Manhattan real estate.
(19) Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Joseph Cooke This is an idea that’s been going on for aeons of time; this middle class thing like, ‘We’re different to you and you’re a lower class person so you stay on that side of void and eat at that cafe down there, and we’ll sit on this side and eat at this restaurant.” It’s like a mould.
(20) Despite the UK’s enthusiasm for Amazon , and similarly permissive test flights elsewhere in Europe, Canada and Australia, “no single country stands out as being aeons ahead of everyone else,” says Holland Michel.
Cosmos
Definition:
(n.) The universe or universality of created things; -- so called from the order and harmony displayed in it.
(n.) The theory or description of the universe, as a system displaying order and harmony.
Example Sentences:
(1) The alterations of dendritic trees of pyramidal neurons of layer III of visual cortex of the rat exposed to the influence of space flight aboard biosputnik "Cosmos-1887" were studied and the results are described to illustrate the methods power.
(2) The rat studies onboard biosatellites of the Cosmos series have demonstrated that a prolonged exposure to microgravity (up to 22 days) is not a stressogenic factor for the DNA synthetic system of liver cells.
(3) In 1974 the USSR carried out a rat experiment aboard the biosatellite Cosmos-690 equipped with a gamma-emitter.
(4) Morphological and histochemical examinations of the skeletal muscles of rats flown for 22 d aboard the Cosmos-605 biosatellite have demonstrated atrophic and dystrophic developments in the soleus muscle accompanied by metabolic changes in the muscle tissue.
(5) Testes from rats flown on Cosmos 1887 were compared with vivarium control and synchronous control samples.
(6) Bones of the rats flown on Cosmos-1667 were examined histologically and histomorphometrically.
(7) Five pregnant growing rats were orbited for 5 days aboard the Soviet COSMOS 1514 biologic satellite.
(8) In the "Cosmos-1887" biosatellite experiment, the plasma samples obtained two days after the landing as well as plasma of synchronous animals exhibited the higher fibrinogen levels when compared to those of vivarium animals.
(9) Immunological reactivity of rats flown aboard the biosatellites Cosmos-605 and Cosmos-690 was compared with respect to the complementary activity of serum and frequency antibodies to sheep red blood cells.
(10) From the histochemical investigation carried out on the digestive tract of rats after 7 days space flight in the soviet biosatellite Cosmos 1667 it resulted that neutral and acid glycoproteins diminished slightly in the sublingual gland, stomach, small intestine and the colon.
(11) The population of Chlorella cells flown as a component of the algobacterial cenosis--fish system on Cosmos-1887 was investigated.
(12) Yet for the Cosmos, looking to gain their own foothold in a crowded New York sports market about to get even more crowded as New York FC commence play in 2015, and with existing MLS team New York Red Bulls having topped their own regular season standings last year, the association with Pelé is still vital.
(13) The flight (COSMOS 1887) was 12.5 days in duration, and the animals were killed approximately 2 days after return to 1 G. Fibers were classified as slow-twitch oxidative or fast-twitch oxidative-glycolytic in histochemically prepared tissue sections.
(14) longus) skeletal muscles of flight and synchronous rats from the Cosmos-605 experiment was investigated.
(15) After the 7-day space flight onboard the biosatellite Cosmos-1667 the water, Na, K, Ca and Mg content of the liver, kidney, heart, skin and bone of male rats was measured.
(16) Liver samples of 12 rats flown aboard the biosatellite Cosmos-690 and irradiated with a dose of 800 rad and of 12 rats from the synchronous experiment were examined histologically and histochemically.
(17) The plasma protein spectrum of flight and synchronous groups of animals in "Cosmos-1887" experiment where plasma samples were prepared in the period of time from 5 to 10 hours after spaceflight coincided with the pattern of vivarium animals.
(18) And wherever the Cosmos went, glamour would be close behind; from weekly parties at Studio 54 to dubious behaviour on aeroplanes, the team became synonymous with excess.
(19) Growth plate histomorphometry of rats flown aboard the Soviet biosatellite COSMOS 2044, a 14-day spaceflight, was compared with that of control groups.
(20) "Claire Rayner found meaning and inspiration in living and the enjoyment of life, in trying to fulfil her potential, and in the wonders of nature and the marvels of the cosmos," said its chief executive, Andrew Copson.