(n.) A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.
(n.) A period of time reckoned from some particular date or epoch; a succession of years dating from some important event; as, the era of Alexander; the era of Christ, or the Christian era (see under Christian).
(n.) A period of time in which a new order of things prevails; a signal stage of history; an epoch.
Example Sentences:
(1) "In my era, we'd get a phone call from John [Galliano] before the show: this is what the show's about, what do you think?
(2) After the emperor's death, they are named after an era chosen for them; thus Hirohito is known exclusively in Japan as Showa Emperor.
(3) The viral titer was 10(1.8) tissue culture infective doses (TCID) higher than that of commercial ERA vaccine.
(4) Thanks to the groundbreaking technology and heavy investment of a new breed of entertainment retailers offering access services, we are witnessing a revolution in the entertainment industry, benefitting consumers, creators and content owners alike.” ERA acts as a forum for the physical and digital retail sectors of music, and represents over 90% of the of the UK’s entertainment retail market.
(5) We have now entered the era of climate change induced loss and damage.
(6) In an era when citizens expect choice, the council argue, the old model of local government no longer works.” Northants uses the word “right-sourcing” to describe the process of offloading services.
(7) He is seeing clubbers with their hands in the air again: "In the dubstep era everyone just stood there and nodded their heads.
(8) In an article for the Nation, Chomsky courts controversy by arguing that parallels drawn between campaigns against Israel and apartheid-era South Africa are misleading and that a misguided strategy could damage rather than help Israel's victims.
(9) Russia may be on the point of walking out of a major cold war era arms-control treaty, Russian analysts have said, after President Obama accused Moscow of violating the accord by testing a cruise missile .
(10) This deal also promotes the separation of the single market and single currency – a British objective for many years that would have been unthinkable in the Maastricht era.
(11) The new era of medical economics emphasizes prospective payment and alternative delivery systems.
(12) Once availed of the fallacy that athletes are role models, there’s a certain purity that feels almost quaint in an era of athlete as brand.
(13) A “shock to the system” is precisely how his adviser Kellyanne Conway has repeatedly described the new era.
(14) So the worst start to a campaign in the Roman Abramovich era has condemned Chelsea to the top of the Premier League table.
(15) The report’s concluding chapters raised dire warning that the operations of contemporary child protection agencies were replicating many of the destructive dynamics of the Stolen Generations era.
(16) The modern era of leg lengthening has therefore brought two things: new technical versatility to correct complex and coexisting deformities and new concepts of the biology of lengthening that are not device specific and can be applied with most lengthening devices.
(17) Pallo Jordan , the ANC's chief propagandist in exile during the apartheid era, made no effort to hide his emotions.
(18) These infections must have been more common in the pre-antibiotic era and perhaps a search of the older literature would have been more fruitful.
(19) In 1994, he appeared as himself in the television special Smashey and Nicey, the End of an Era.
(20) The club’s increase in capacity from 35,000 at the Boleyn Ground to 60,000 at the former Olympic Stadium also makes it the biggest and most successful stadium move in Britain in the modern era.” The club’s vice-chairman, Karren Brady, added: “David Sullivan, David Gold and I have always believed in the West Ham fanbase and knew we could fill the new stadium “Reports consistently show that we have highest average capacity in the Premier League and every game in our final season at the Boleyn Ground sold out within days of going on sale.
Erg
Definition:
(n.) The unit of work or energy in the C. G. S. system, being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimeter; the amount of energy expended in moving a body one centimeter against a force of one dyne. One foot pound is equal to 13,560,000 ergs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similar to intact crayfish, animals with an isolated protocerebrum-eyestalk complex, exhibit competent circadian rhythms in the electroretinogram (ERG).
(2) We have now started a prospective follow-up study in order to pursue the development of (a) p-ERG amplitudes and (b) funduscopic changes and visual acuity in these patients.
(3) Electroretinographic (ERG), morphometric and biochemical studies on retinas from monkeys or rats reveal that moderate level developmental lead (Pb) exposure produces long-term selective rod deficits and degeneration.
(4) The b-wave in the ERG was lacking and the EOG was flat.
(5) ERGs of high amplitude and of normal wave form were recordable with prominent oscillatory potentials.
(6) In chronical experiments the ERG of 5 rabbits were recorded before and after stimulation of the hippocampus.
(7) The wave forms of the equiluminance stimulus onset responses were similar to ERGs evoked with luminance decrease and the stimulus offset PERGs were like ERGs elicited by luminance increase.
(8) The ERG tested in a cell-free extract from one of these transformants proved to be resistant to the Al derivative, terbinafine.
(9) The highest yield of amino acids with the quench reaction was 9 x 10-7 molecules per erg of input energy.
(10) Normal retinal function can be maintained for several hours with the measurement of the gross electroretinogram (ERG) serving as a useful monitor of the electrophysiological condition of the preparation.
(11) We suggest that the initial supernormal ERG reflects an underlying biochemical change mediated by the action of anti retinal S-antigen antibodies.
(12) The postirradiation changes in the ERG wave amplitudes were most pronounced during the attenuating photokeratitis.
(13) The results strongly support the concept that the b-wave of the photopic ERG may actually represent a composite of potentials whose individual contributions are best visualized when the ERG is recorded with the 100- to 1000-Hz bandwidth.
(14) The ERG a-wave and b-amplitudes also decreased as a consequence of the taurine-free diet.
(15) The electroretinogram (ERG) was recorded in the dark from photo-entrained albino rabbits, using a constant-intensity, 500-nm, 50- or 100-msec stimulus at 1-min intervals.
(16) We hypothesize that the b-wave of the electroreginogram (ERG) can provide a precise, noninvasive measure of the morning rod disc shedding event.
(17) Pelmatohydra oligactis was amputated in the central part of the gastral region and exposed to radiation of ultraviolet rays (2535 angstroms, 12 erg mm(-2)s(-2) for 7, 15 and 20 minutes.
(18) ERG bp-waves were recorded in congenital color blindness by scanning monochromatic light stimuli, and spectral responses obtained could be evaluated as a spectral pattern.
(19) The data suggests that the b-wave of the ERG should be considered as a composite of potentials rather than as a single potential.
(20) The laser applications reduced considerably the amplitudes of the a and b waves of the ERG.