Definitions for azoic
azoic

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. azoicadjective

   before the appearance of life

   "azoic rocks contain not organic remains"

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1. azoicadjective

   Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was no animal life on the globe; as, the azoic rocks.

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1. azoic

   Azoic Age, Azoic Era, Azoic Period and Azoic Eon were terms used before 1950 to describe the age of rocks formed before the appearance of life in the geologic sequence. The word "Azoic" is derived from the Greek a- meaning without and zoön meaning animal (or living being), it was first used to mean without death.Azoic was used as early as 1846 by a geologist named Adams, and gradually replaced the earlier term Primitive. Due to the controversy over evolution, "Azoic" was replaced, by 1900, in most usages by the term "Archaean" or "Archaeozoic The Archaean was later subdivided into the Archaean and the even earlier Hadean. Many of the rocks that had originally been thought to be of Azoic time were reclassified as Archaean, but the period itself is now essentially the Hadean. J.D. Dana in 1863, said that the Azoic "stands as the first [age] in geologic history, whether science can point out unquestionably the rocks of that age or not." He went on to say that when fossils had been found in strata which had previously been classified as Azoic, the boundary was simply moved lower. "Such changes are part of the progress of the science."

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1. azoic

   Azoic refers to a time period in Earth's history before the existence of life, or a specific context where no life, especially animal life, is present.

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1. Azoicadjective

   destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was no animal life on the globe; as, the azoic. rocks

2. Etymology: [Gr. 'a priv. + life, from to live.]

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1. Azoic

   a-zō′ik, adj. without life: before the existence of animal life: formed when there was no animal life on the globe, as rocks. [Gr. a, neg., and zōē, life—za-ein, to live.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of azoic in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of azoic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=azoic
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Azoic
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azoic
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/azoic
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=azoic