(n.) A church festival celebrated on the 6th of January, the twelfth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the visit of the Magi of the East to Bethlehem, to see and worship the child Jesus; or, as others maintain, to commemorate the appearance of the star to the Magi, symbolizing the manifestation of Christ to the Gentles; Twelfthtide.
Example Sentences:
(1) Photograph: Warner Bros His first epiphany came during a high school version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel in the high school auditorium before 1,500 people.
(2) If it felt like an epiphany for Benn, it was more like a Sermon on the Mount to his Labour colleagues.
(3) In the film, Gould says that he knows he cannot beat death; indeed, his acceptance of its approach is at the root of his epiphany.
(4) For Demirtaş, the Diyarbakir killings were an epiphany of the kind that hundreds of thousands of Kurds have experienced over the past 40 years – generally in response to a government atrocity.
(5) I don't know of any recent astronauts who've had an epiphany based on space travel."
(6) But as my adult-onset acne continued to get worse and worse – and more resistant to medication – I had an epiphany.
(7) Talking with Hebden as he chats about making music, or the feeling in the room as he DJed that final night of Plastic People, you notice how he describes his life as a series of little epiphanies.
(8) Osborne gets lost In an interview with the Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Kath Viner, George Osborne admitted to an unusual epiphany on getting to know the north.
(9) Late, late has been their epiphany, but still too late for this year.
(10) This professional epiphany was mirrored by a challenge to his family life when his son Kai (Markram has five children from two marriages) was diagnosed with Asperger's, an autism spectrum disorder.
(11) The capacity to inspire epiphany in others is a life-changing gift.
(12) His explanation for the leap is that he had an epiphany when he was in his last year of Stanford, when one of his younger brothers came out as gay.
(13) When I was 56 we went to New England on holiday and I had an epiphany.
(14) I had at least two life epiphanies during Where Dreams Go to Die, which contains maybe my favourite lyric of all time: “I regret the day your ugly carcass caught my eye”.
(15) Were it not for the PKK, which Öcalan launched with the murder of two Turkish soldiers in 1984, it is possible that the forced assimilation of the Kurds into mainstream Turkish society would have advanced much further, and the epiphanies of Demirtaş and others may not have happened.
(16) Making commitments now risks overcompensation for households and adding significantly to the cost of household assistance.” Tony Abbott's GST 'epiphany' has been a long time in the works Read more The New South Wales Coalition government led the charge for increasing the GST to help fund the shortfall in health funding, while the Victorian and Queensland Labor governments suggested the Medicare levy as a fairer alternative .
(17) Intriguingly, it was not the prospect of Lebedev, bearing a vast bouquet of P45s, that caused alarm in the blogosphere, but a handful of Liddle's hundreds of columns, such as a grotesque ad feminam attack in the Spectator which was, for many of us, an epiphany, the first moment we had ever felt warmly towards Harriet Harman.
(18) "When I saw there was a whole system of science based on genetics, of serious work in the evolutionary pattern, that was an epiphany.
(19) But no sign yet that the Davos set is worrying unduly: by Epiphany – 6 January – FTSE 100 chief executives had already earned more than a year of the average wage .
(20) T he moment that changed James Watt’s life – his beer epiphany, which he recalls with surprising (or well-rehearsed) precision – did not arrive in the most auspicious venue: “It was a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale from the States, bought at Tesco’s in Stonehaven, to wash down some fish and chips.
Epoch
Definition:
(n.) A fixed point of time, established in history by the occurrence of some grand or remarkable event; a point of time marked by an event of great subsequent influence; as, the epoch of the creation; the birth of Christ was the epoch which gave rise to the Christian era.
(n.) A period of time, longer or shorter, remarkable for events of great subsequent influence; a memorable period; as, the epoch of maritime discovery, or of the Reformation.
(n.) A division of time characterized by the prevalence of similar conditions of the earth; commonly a minor division or part of a period.
(n.) The date at which a planet or comet has a longitude or position.
(n.) An arbitrary fixed date, for which the elements used in computing the place of a planet, or other heavenly body, at any other date, are given; as, the epoch of Mars; lunar elements for the epoch March 1st, 1860.
Example Sentences:
(1) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(2) The results indicate that the different EEG frequency bands during a given EEG epoch are generated by neural populations in different brain locations.
(3) The majority of classes have over 200 discrete epochs.
(4) By means of the adaptive estimation of the variance of respiratory movements, an amplitude-time window is calculated to choose between epochs with breaths and apnoea.
(5) Speaking in Athens last November, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben discussed an epochal transformation in the idea of government, "whereby the traditional hierarchical relation between causes and effects is inverted, so that, instead of governing the causes – a difficult and expensive undertaking – governments simply try to govern the effects".
(6) The effect was chiefly on the frequency of state changes and less on epoch durations.
(7) The author rejects the proposition, encountered in some parts of the psychoanalytic and social-science literature, that certain types of disturbances correspond to certain epochs or forms of society.
(8) In overt schizophrenics, late epoch stability was low in all EPs.
(9) EPOCH was administered intravenously once a week with the dosage of 3,000-9,000 IU for 8 weeks.
(10) The prolonged neurophysiological effects of stimulation may allow the use of maximum effective intervals between optimal epochs of stimulation so that any cerebellar damage can be minimized.
(11) Median heart and respiratory rate, respiratory variability, and median extent of three types of heart rate variation were determined for each epoch, and the minute-by-minute correlations between seven pairs of parameters were determined for quiet sleep, rapid eye movement sleep, and waking in each recording.
(12) The short-term variability of the selected EEG measures and their suitability as a sample estimate were assessed by computing the coefficient of variation from all selected epochs of a given subject at baseline.
(13) But what use are such skills when addressing the enormity of this new epoch?
(14) It is argued that, during the first two and last periods, all quantities of genetic interest, such as the gametic frequencies, the mean fitness, the linkage disequilibrium, and the linkage disequilibrium ratio, Z, change with time in essentially the same manner, characteristic of the particular epoch concerned and determined in this paper, and therefore, when quasilinkage equilibrium occurs, it is a transitional phenomenon.
(15) Evidence for the hypothesis was found only during the EEG-epoch one second before the answer.
(16) The automatic analysis scored fewer epochs as stages wake, rapid eye movement (REM), and 2 and more as stages 1, 3, and 4.
(17) Finally, an epoch by epoch analysis is described, with the aim of achieving a more detailed evaluation of the intergroup variability.
(18) In the first set of experiments (n = 8), placebo or CS (30 mg) was given, followed by four 15-min epochs of alveolar hypoxia (8% O2, 5% CO2, 87% N2) each separated by 30 min of alveolar normoxia (21% O2).
(19) Two averaging strategies were assessed: (1) averaging the entire pre- and poststimulus epoch point for point across individuals and (2) averaging the voltage of Pa at the latency of Pa for each individual.
(20) Finally, it is demonstrated that the probability of a false-positive decision may increase by an order of magnitude if the Rayleigh test is not performed once, for a fixed number of epochs specified in advance, but is carried out repeatedly during an ongoing experiment until either one of the tests indicates the presence of an evoked response or the upper limit for the number of epochs is exceeded.