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eon | seconds |

As an initialism eon

is (politics) , it was formed before wwii and disbanded in 1941.

As a noun seconds is

.

As a verb seconds is

(second).

eon

English

Alternative forms

* aeon (chiefly British or Gnostic) * (qualifier)

Noun

(wikipedia eon) (en noun)
  • (US) Eternity.
  • A period of 1,000,000,000 years.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
  • , author=Robert L. Dorit , title=Rereading Darwin , volume=100, issue=1, page=23 , magazine= 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.}}
  • (geology) The longest time period used in geology.
  • (US, informal, hyperbole) A long period of time.
  • It's been eons since we last saw each other.
  • A spirit being emanating from the Godhead.
  • Derived terms

    * Archean eon * eonian *

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    seconds

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • There are sixty seconds in a minute.
  • A second serving of food for one person.
  • ''There is plenty of pie left, if you have room for seconds .
  • An item of clothing that has failed quality control and is sold at a discount
  • It was marked as seconds , but I can't find anything wrong with it.
  • Any article of merchandise of a grade inferior to the best; especially, a coarse or inferior kind of flour.
  • Synonyms

    * (second serving ): second helping

    Verb

    (head)
  • (second)
  • ----