| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. Approximately the last 10,000 years.[Wordnet]. | |
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Common Expressions: Holocene epoch
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Holocene epoch | Approximately the last 10,000 years. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: Holocene epoch
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Holocene epoch | Aerospace | In geologic terms, the period of time running from about 11 thousand years ago (9000 BCE) to the present day. Although there have been a number of cool periods during the Holocene (e.g., the Little Ice Age), it has been a warmer epoch than the Pleistocene epoch which immediately preceded it. See: Little Ice Age, Pleistocene epoch. (references) | |
| Holocene epoch | Environment | The most recent epoch of geologic time that extends from the end of the Pleistocene to the present, or approximately the past 10,000 years; also the rocks and deposits formed during this time. (references) | |
| Holocene epoch | Geophysics | An epoch of the Quaternary period dating from the end of the Pleistocene approximately 11,000 years ago until the present. (references) | |
| Holocene epoch | Mining | The second epoch of the Quaternary Period, beginning approximately 10,000 years ago and continuing to the pres-ent time. See also Pleistocene Epoch. (references) | |
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