Proterozoic

See also: proterozoic

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Proterozoic

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Etymology

From protero- +‎ -zoic.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌpɹoʊt(ə)ɹrəˈzoʊɪk/, /ˌpɹoʊt(ə)ɹoʊˈzoʊɪk/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌpɹɒt(ə)ɹəˈzəʊɪk/, /ˌpɹɒt(ə)ɹəʊˈzəʊɪk/

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• Rhymes: -əʊɪk

Adjective

Proterozoic (not comparable)

1. (geology) Of or relating to the geologic eon from 2,500 Ma to 541.0±1.0 Ma.

Translations

of eon from 2,500 to 541 million years ago

Finnish: proterotsooinen (fi) French: protérozoïque (fr) German: proterozoisch Greek: προτεροζωικός (proterozoïkós) Hebrew: פרוטרוזואיקאי (proterozo'ikái) Irish: Prótarasóch Italian: proterozoico (it) Mongolian: Cyrillic: анх төрмөлийн (anx törmöliin), анхны (anxny) (China) Portuguese: proterozoico Russian: протерозо́йский (ru) m (protɛrozójskij) Spanish: Proterozoico Tibetan: གདོད་མའི་སྲོག་ལྡན (gdod ma'i srog ldan), གདོད་མའི་སྲོག་ལྡན་ཆགས་རིམ་གྱི (gdod ma'i srog ldan chags rim gyi)

Proper noun

Proterozoic

1. (geology) The eon from 2,500 Ma to 541.0±1.0 Ma, the beginning of the Phanerozoic, marked by the build up of oxygen in the atmosphere and the emergence of primitive multicellular life.

   Hypernym: (eon/supereon) Precambrian

   Hyponyms: Paleoproterozoic, Mesoproterozoic, Neoproterozoic

   Coordinate terms: (preceding eon) Archaean, (succeeding eon) Cambrian

Translations

eon 2,500-541 Ma

Chinese: Mandarin: 元古宙 (zh) (Yuángǔzhòu) Czech: starohory f pl, proterozoikum n Dutch: proterozoïcum (nl) n Estonian: proterosoikum, aguaegkond, agueoon Finnish: proterotsooinen aioni French: protérozoïque (fr) m German: Proterozoikum (de) n Greek: Προτεροζωικός m (Proterozoïkós) Hebrew: פרוטרוזואיקון (he) m (proterozo'ikón) Hungarian: proterozoikum (hu) Italian: proterozoico (it) Japanese: 原生代 (ja) (げんせいだい, Genseidai) Polish: proterozoik (pl) m Portuguese: Proterozoico m Russian: протерозо́й (ru) m (protɛrozój) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: протерозо̀ик, алгонкиј m Roman: proterozòik (sh) m, algonkij m Spanish: Proterozoico m Tibetan: གདོད་མའི་སྲོག་ལྡན་ཆགས་རིམ (gdod ma'i srog ldan chags rim, literally “primordial life stratum”)

See also

• Appendix:Geologic timescale