chapter vs epoch

chapter

verb
  • To divide into chapters. 

  • To put into a chapter. 

  • To use administrative procedure to remove someone. 

  • To take to task. 

noun
  • A community of canons or canonesses. 

  • An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean. 

  • A meeting of certain organized societies or orders. 

  • A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue. 

  • An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons. 

  • An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area. 

  • A chapter house 

  • A bishop's council. 

  • One of the main sections into which the text of a book is divided. 

  • A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts. 

epoch

verb
  • To divide (data) into segments by time period. 

noun
  • A geochronologic unit of hundreds of thousands to millions of years; a subdivision of a period, and subdivided into ages (or sometimes subepochs). 

  • A specific instant in time, chosen as the point of reference or zero value of a system that involves identifying instants of time. 

  • A particular period of history, or of a person's life, especially one considered noteworthy or remarkable. 

  • A notable event which marks the beginning of such a period. 

  • One complete presentation of the training data set to an iterative machine learning algorithm. 

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