Era vs. Kra

Eranoun

A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.

Eranoun

(geology) A unit of time, smaller than eons and greater than periods.

Eranoun

A fixed point of time, usually an epoch, from which a series of years is reckoned.

Eranoun

A period of time reckoned from some particular date or epoch; a succession of years dating from some important event; as, the era of Alexander; the era of Christ, or the Christian era (see under Christian).

Eranoun

A period of time in which a new order of things prevails; a signal stage of history; an epoch.

Eranoun

a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event

Eranoun

a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods

Era

An era is a span of time defined for the purposes of chronology or historiography, as in the regnal eras in the history of a given monarchy, a calendar era used for a given calendar, or the geological eras defined for the history of Earth. Comparable terms are epoch, age, period, saeculum, aeon (Greek aion) and Sanskrit yuga.

Kranoun

A long-tailed ape (Macacus cynomolgus) of India and Sumatra. It is reddish olive, spotted with black, and has a black tail.