Gregorian Epoch - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: gregorian epochGregorian epoch
Gregorian epoch, the time from which the Gregorian calendar or computation dates, i.e., from the year 1582. See CALENDAR....
Epoch
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...
Epochal
Belonging to an epoch of the nature of an epoch...
Chazy epoch
An epoch at the close of the Canadian period of the American Lower Silurian system so named from a township in Clinton Co New York See the Diagram under Geology...
Cincinnati epoch
An epoch at the close of the American lower Silurian system The rocks are well developed near Cincinnati Ohio The group includes the Hudson River and Lorraine shales of New York...
Epoch, or epocha
Epoch, or epocha [fr. Gk., a pause], the time at which a new computation is begun; the time whence dates are numbered.A period of time marked by distinctive featured or noteworthy events, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 556....
Calendar
Calendar [fr. Calendarium, Lat.; fr. Calend', the first day in the month in Roman reckoning], the order and series of months, together with the festivals and fasts, which make up the year. There are two modes of computing time-by the annual course of the sun, and by the periodical revolutions of the moon. The solar year consists of 365 days, 5 hours, 48', 45', 30'; the lunar year of 354 days, 3 hours, 48', 38', 12'. The Mohammedans adopt the lunar year. The solar year, calculated by the ancient Egyptians, has undergone various corrections and denominations.The chief of the calendars now in use are the three following: (1) The Julian, so called because Julius C'sar introduced into the Roman Empire the solar or Egyptian year, instead of the lunar year. The Russians and Greeks are the only nations that now use the Julian year. The common Julian year consists of 365 days, and the bissextile or leap-year (see that title), which returns every four years, of 366 days. This computation is faul...
Niagara period
A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system embracing the Medina Clinton and Niagara epoch The rocks of the Niagara epoch mostly limestones are extensively distributed and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of shale supporting a greater thickness of limestone which is gradually undermined by the removal of the shale See Chart of Geology...
Church modes
The modes or scales used in ancient church music See Gregorian...
Gregorian
Pertaining to or originated by some person named Gregory especially one of the popes of that name...
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