(a.) Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also caenozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology.
Example Sentences:
(1) Concentrations of small fossil mammals are frequently encountered in Cenozoic deposits, but the causes for such accumulations have seldom been determined.
(2) This discovery nearly doubles the stratigraphic range of therapsids and furnishes their first record from the Cenozoic.
(3) In general, the small subunit nuclear sequences appear to be best for elucidating Precambrian divergences, the large subunit nuclear sequences for Paleozoic and Mesozoic divergences, and the organellar sequences of both subunits for Cenozoic divergences.
(4) Of the suborders present in the Paleozoic, seven are morphologically relatively simple, slowly evolving, and continued into Mesozoic and Cenozoic times to become the ancestoral lineages from which evolved several additional post-Paleozoic suborders.
(5) Hidden beneath the rolling red landscape is one of the world’s richest fossil deposits from the Cenozoic era, also know as the Age of Mammals.
(6) Smelt and sea raven belong to taxonomic orders believed to have diverged prior to Cenozoic glaciation.
(7) All groups studied show some slowdown in rates of molecular change over Cenozoic time.
(8) The break from constant or increasing rates during the Mesozoic to decreasing rates during the Cenozoic appears to coincide with extraordinary diversification of placental mammals at the beginning of this era.
(9) Cenozoic climatic oscillations leading to increasing seasonality may have been the triggering element in this model, because seasonality creates periods in which the availability of fruit is relatively predictable.
(10) The AFP gene locus may have evolved by gene amplification as recently as 10(6) years ago in response to the onset of the Cenozoic ice age.
Eon
Definition:
(n.) Alt. of Aeon
Example Sentences:
(1) In response to the Advisory Committee on training in Nursing recommendations EONS in association with Marie Curie Memorial Foundation organized a workshop, where representatives of the 12 member states of the EEC, actively involved in cancer nursing education, were invited to prepare a core curriculum in cancer nursing education.
(2) Casino Royale, whose rights had been individually sold off by Fleming in 1955, eventually passed to Eon in 1999 as a result of an agreement between Eon’s backers MGM and rival Hollywood studio Sony – thereby clearing the way for the 2006 version.
(3) Eon only regained the rights to use Spectre and Blofeld in 007 movies last year after resolving a long-running legal dispute stretching back to a suggestion, in 1959, by the Irish writer Kevin McClory that Ian Fleming, the spy’s creator, should pen a Bond film set in the Bahamas .
(4) Accumulation of random mutations and large macromolecular sequence change in all organisms since the Proterozoic Eon has been importantly supplemented by acquisition of inherited genomes ('symbiogenesis').
(5) Karyotypic alterations (polyploidization and karyotypic fissioning) have been added to these other mechanisms of species origin in plants and animals during the Phanerozoic Eon.
(6) Authentic Scottish Labour, no longer a “branch office” of the party in Westminster, needs to keep top talent at Holyrood, after eons of brain-drain southwards.
(7) Ofgem is understood to believe the big six – Centrica's British Gas, EDF Energy, RWE Npower, SSE, Eon and Scottish Power – hold up to £400m in millions of accounts closed after customers switched suppliers or moved home.
(8) Vin reminds me that we have not had a change in score since the third inning, which was eons ago.
(9) In his first major interview since taking office, Will Day, the incoming chair of the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC), told the Guardian that construction of new coal stations, such as the planned Eon Kingsnorth facility in Kent, would provide a "lightning rod" for international protest.
(10) However, it’s clear that Eon does its best to use British directors, reinforcing the national brand identity that is part of the Bond selling point.
(11) However, after a six-year break, Eon installed Martin Campbell in the chair: another experienced director, but one who was able to orchestrate one of the most elaborate stunts in Bond history.
(12) Frankly, producers Eon would have been better off giving the lead to Madonna’s innuendo-dispensing fencing instructor, but perhaps the idea deserves a revamp more than a decade on.
(13) The Sky deal comprises the 22 official Bond films made by Eon Productions as well as two non-Eon movies – Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again.
(14) Don Lieper , director of new business at Eon, said: "We take this very seriously – it is a legal requirement.
(15) But he appeared to rule himself out in April, telling an audience at London’s British Film Institute that he had given up on getting the call from 007 production company Eon.
(16) Local distributor eOne was quick to trumpet this achievement as bigger than the UK opening of Slumdog Millionaire (£1.83m from 324 cinemas), and with a higher screen average than the debut of The King's Speech (£8,919).
(17) For example, the functional competence of most, if not all, of the sugar-metabolizing enzymes was clearly established before the division of eukaryotes from prokaryotes eons ago, each critical active-site amino acid sequence being conserved ever since by bacteria as well as by mammals.
(18) Photograph: eOne If he is indeed the nemesis of Luke Skywalker & Co, he has bodybuilder-size shoes to fill ( David Prowse , who wore the original suit, stood at 6ft 6in).
(19) This paper outlines the content of that core curriculum and presents EONS' subsequent plans to design educational courses in all aspects of cancer care for European nurses.
(20) The sites have been nominated by the energy giants EDF, Eon and RWE, and by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), which owns some nuclear sites.