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Epoch or EPOCH may refer to:

Contents

 1Time-related
 2Arts and entertainment
 3Games
 4Publications
 5Science and technology
 6Weapons
 7See also

Time-related[edit]
 Any historical Era
 Epoch (astronomy), a moment in time used as a reference for the orbital elements of a celestial
body
 Epoch (computing), a moment from which system time is usually measured
 Epoch (cosmology) or cosmologic epoch, a phase in the development of the universe since the
Big Bang
 Epoch (date reference), a moment in time chosen as the origin of a particular calendar for
periodization
 Epoch (geology) or geologic epoch, a span of time smaller than a period and larger than an age
 Epoch (race), racial periods in Blavatsky's esoteric theory of the root races
 Unix epoch, the starting time for Unix-based operating systems

Arts and entertainment[edit]

 Epoch (DC Comics), a supervillain also known as the Lord of Time
 Epoch (film)
 Epoch (Marvel Comics), a cosmic entity in the Marvel Comics universe
 Epoch (anthology), a 1975 anthology of science fiction stories
 Epoch (Tycho album), a 2016 album by Tycho
 Epoch, a 2006 album by Rip Slyme
 Epoch (Song) by Savlonic, 2017
 Epoch (The Brave album), a 2016 album by The Brave
Games[edit]
 Epoch Co., a Japanese toy and computer games company
 Epoch Game Pocket Computer, an early hand-held game console produced by Epoch Co.
 Epoch (Chrono Trigger), a flying time machine in role-playing game Chrono Trigger
 Epoch Hunter, a boss in Caverns of Time from the game World of Warcraft

Publications[edit]
 Epoch (American magazine), literary magazine of Cornell University
 Epoch (Russian magazine), literary magazine by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his brother Mikhail
 Ha-Tsfira (lit. Epoch), a Hebrew language newspaper published in 1862 and 1874–1931
 Epoch Times, a privately owned Falun Gong-linked newspaper

Science and technology[edit]

 EPOCH (chemotherapy), a chemotherapy regimen
 EPOCh (Extrasolar Planet Observation and Characterization), a NASA mission associated
with EPOXI

Weapons[edit]
 Epoch Remote Control Turret