epoch (EN)

noun

noun “epoch”

1. a significant or memorable time span in history or someone's life
   Mellen Iech un, fir d'Iwwersetzungen vun den Beispillsätz an d'monolingual Definitioune vun all Wuert ze gesinn.

   The invention of the printing press marked an epoch in human history, vastly improving the spread of knowledge.
2. a unit of geological time lasting hundreds of thousands to millions of years, smaller than a period and often divided into smaller ages
   The Paleocene epoch followed the mass extinction event that marked the end of the dinosaurs.
3. in machine learning, one full cycle of presenting the entire training data set to an algorithm
   After 100 epochs, the accuracy of the machine learning model improved significantly.