(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.
Triassic
Definition:
(a.) Of the age of, or pertaining to, the Trias.
(n.) The Triassic formation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The evolution of enamel structure is dealt with here on the basis of fossil reptiles and mammals ranging from the Triassic to the present.
(2) It is hypothesized that this group arose in the early Triassic period, prior to the breakup of Pangea.
(3) Triassic-Jurassic, c 200 million years ago Three-quarters of species were lost, again most likely due to another huge outburst of volcanism.
(4) All the enamels investigated from the Triassic contained columns of crystals, which were deduced as hexagonal.
(5) The fissure faunas are generally thought to be of Upper Triassic (Rhaetic) age (Kühne 1946), although Kermack, Musset & Rigney (1973) believe that the evidence is insufficient to determine whether the deposits are Rhaetic or Lower Liassic.
(6) Therapsids, first appearing in the Early Permian, were thought to become extinct in the Middle Jurassic, soon after the Late Triassic origin of mammals.
(7) Permian-Triassic, c 250 million years ago The big one – more than 95% of species perished, including trilobites and giant insects – strongly linked to massive volcanic eruptions in Siberia that caused a savage episode of global warming.
(8) – Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous … 'What will survive of us is love', wrote Philip Larkin.
(9) It is concluded that the existence of an interprismatic region provides the most important distinction between prismatic enamels and the hexagonal columns of crystals in the Triassic material.
(10) Probelesodon, as surely other species, have acquired in Middle Triassic times a relative brain size rather closed to that of certain fossil and living mammals.
(11) Major mass extinctions among tetrapods took place in the early Permian, late Permian, early Triassic, late Triassic, late Cretaceous, early Oligocene and late Miocene.
(12) 3 Permian-Triassic mass extinction, c 250 million years ago.
(13) The Manicouagan impact structure of Quebec provides dates broadly compatible with the Triassic-Jurassic boundary and, following the impact theory of mass extinctions, may be implicated in the cause.
(14) Neusticosaurus pusillus is biostratigraphically important because it is one of the rare species reported from both the Germanic and the Alpine Triassic.
(15) The fragment was embedded in a pebbly quartzose sandstone, probably of fluvial origin, in the lower part of the Triassic Fremouw Formation (as yet undefined), which contains Dicroidium in the upper part.
(16) The purposes of this monograph are to describe the postcranial skeletons of the earliest known mammals, and to probe, in so far as possible by osteological study, biological questions concerning the habits and adaptations of these late Triassic forms.
(17) As was previously suggested by studies of marine invertebrates, this pattern is consistent with a global extinction event at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary.
(18) Uricoteley was in part responsible for the radiation of the archosaurs during the Triassic as a water-conserving mechanism in the adult, thereby allowing them to invade the arid environments of that period.
(19) A newly discovered Argentinian Middle Triassic form shows, for the first time in an ancestral reptile, definite evidence of a squamosal-dentary articulation supplementary to the persistent primitive connection.
(20) During the Late Triassic period, fallen trees were buried by sediment with a high content of volcanic ash.