Age Explained

Age or AGE may refer to:

Time and its effects

• Age, the amount of time someone has been alive or something has existed
  • East Asian age reckoning, an Asian system of marking age starting at 1
• Ageing or aging, the process of becoming older
  • Senescence, the gradual deterioration of biological function with age
  • Human development (biology)
• Periodization, the process of categorizing the past into discrete named blocks of time
  • Ages of Man, the stages of human existence on the Earth according to Greek mythology and its subsequent Roman interpretation
  • Prehistoric age

Places

• AGE, the IATA airport code for Wangerooge Airfield, in Lower Saxony, Germany

People

• Åge, a given name
• Aage, a given name
• Agenore Incrocci, an Italian screenwriter

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Ages, worlds in the Myst video game series

Music

• "Age" (song), a song by Jim and Ingrid Croce

Periodicals

• Age (journal), a scientific journal on ageing, now named GeroScience
• The Age, a newspaper in Melbourne, Australia
• The Age, a nineteenth-century American newspaper edited by Melville Fuller
• The New York Age, African-American newspaper from 1887 to 1960

Businesses and organizations

• âge, a Japanese media company
• Agricultural & General Engineers or AGE, a group of engineering companies
• Galician: [[Alternativa Galega de Esquerda]] or AGE, the Galician Left Alternative, a political party in Spain
• American Aging Association or AGE, an organization for aging studies
• Associated Gas and Electric, a defunct American power company from New York

Languages

• East Angal language (ISO-639: age)
• Esimbi language or Age, a language of the Cameroons

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

• Age (genus), a genus of moth
• Arterial gas embolism or AGE, a blood vessel blockage caused by bubbles of gas
• Advanced glycation end-products or AGEs, proteins or lipids that become glycated as a result of exposure to sugars

Other sciences

• Age (geology)
• Age (model theory), an aspect of mathematical model theory
• Applied general equilibrium or AGE, a model in mathematical economics

Other uses

• Agé, a god of the Fon people of Africa

See also

• • • AG (disambiguation)
• Ages (disambiguation)
• Age of Aquarius (disambiguation)
• Ageism, discrimination against individuals or groups on the basis of their age
• Aging (disambiguation)
• AIG (disambiguation)
• Golden age (disambiguation)
• New Age (disambiguation)