Eon vs Archaean - What's the difference?
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(US) Eternity.
A period of 1,000,000,000 years.
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(geology) The longest time period used in geology.
(US, informal, hyperbole) A long period of time.
A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
(geology) of, or relating to the geologic eon from about 3,800 to 2,500 million years ago; comprises the Eoarchean, Paleoarchean, Mesoarchean and Neoarchean eras; marked by an atmosphere with little oxygen, the formation of the first continents and oceans and the emergence of simple life
As nouns the difference between eon and archaean
is that eon is (us) eternity while archaean is (biology) any organism of the domain archaea.eon
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Alternative forms
* aeon (chiefly British or Gnostic) * (qualifier)Noun
(wikipedia eon) (en noun)citation, passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
- It's been eons since we last saw each other.