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recent

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recent

IPA(Pronunciation)

capitalized countable obsolete uncountable

(obsolete, geology, capitalized) An earlier term for the Holocene.

Japanese Meaning

（古語・地質学用語）完新世、つまりホロシーンを指す語。かつて用いられた呼称

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Many older geological papers refer to the recent as a distinct epoch now known as the Holocene.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

多くの古い地質学の論文は、かつてホロシーンの旧称であった時代を、現在ではホロシーンに含まれているにもかかわらず独立した地質時代として記述している。

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(obsolete, geology, capitalized) An earlier term for the Holocene.

He [Charles Lyell] ignored Quaternary, a term he never accepted. The Recent addressed the age “tenanted by man,” which at the time barely extended beyond the chronicles of the Bible.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

recents

（ plural ）

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