Eon vs Neoarchean - What's the difference?
eon | neoarchean |
(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 a geologic era within the Archaean eon from about 2800 to 2500 million years ago.
Neoarchean is a hypernym of eon.
In geology terms the difference between eon and neoarchean
is that eon is the longest time period used in geology while neoarchean is the era from 2,800 Ma to 2,500 Ma.As a noun eon
is eternity.As an initialism EON
is ΕΟΝ, the Greek National Organisation of Youth similar to the Hitler Youth, it was formed before WWII and disbanded in 1941.As an adjective Neoarchean is
of a geologic era within the Archaean eon from about 2800 to 2500 million years ago.As a proper noun Neoarchean is
the era from 2,800 Ma to 2,500 Ma.eon
English
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.