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age 1. a. a period of history marked by some feature or characteristic; era b. (capital when part of a name): the Middle Ages; the Space Age 2. Geology palaeontol a. a period of the earth's history distinguished by special characteristics b. the period during which a stage of rock strata is formed; a subdivision of an epoch 3. Myth any of the successive periods in the legendary history of man, which were, according to Hesiod, the golden, silver, bronze, heroic, and iron ages 4. Psychol the level in years that a person has reached in any area of development, such as mental or emotional, compared with the normal level for his chronological age 5. of age adult and legally responsible for one's actions (usually at 18 or, formerly, 21 years) age [āj] (biology) Period of time from origin or birth to a later time designated or understood; length of existence. (geology) Any one of the named epochs in the history of the earth marked by specific phases of physical conditions or organic evolution, such as the Age of Mammals. One of the smaller subdivisions of the epoch as geologic time, corresponding to the stage or the formation, such as the Lockport Age in the Niagara Epoch. AGE (aerospace engineering) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| But at my age I can hardly get to the city, and therefore you should come oftener to the Piraeus. "Happy the age, happy the time, to which the ancients gave the name of golden, not because in that fortunate age the gold so coveted in this our iron one was gained without toil, but because they that lived in it knew not the two words "mine" and "thine" I saw no signs of extreme age among them, nor is there any appreciable difference in their appearance from the age of maturity, about forty, until, at about the age of one thousand years, they go voluntarily upon their last strange pilgrimage down the river Iss, which leads no living Martian knows whither and from whose bosom no Martian has ever returned, or would be allowed to live did he return after once embarking upon its cold, dark waters. |
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