LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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a long period of time
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an instrument played
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -In astronomy an aeon is defined as a billion years (109 years, abbreviated AE).
Detailed explanation-2: -: an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age. I haven’t seen him in eons. : a very large division of geologic time usually longer than an era. the Archean eon. : a unit of geologic time equal to one billion years.
Detailed explanation-3: -Eon goes back to the Greek aiōn, “age.” An age is not easy to measure, and neither is an eon. Both are just really long periods of time, but in science an eon is about a billion years.
Detailed explanation-4: -(formal) an extremely long period of time; thousands of years. Only yesterday-and it seemed aeons ago, not just a few hours-he had been a happily married man.
Detailed explanation-5: -Eons and aeons are both English terms. Eons is predominantly used in American (US) English ( en-US ) while aeons is predominantly used in British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) ( en-GB ). In the United States, there is a preference for “eons” over “aeons” (55 to 45).