Age or AGE may refer to:

Time and its effects

* Age, the amount of time someone has been alive or something has

existed Existence is the state of having being or reality in contrast to nonexistence and nonbeing. Existence is often contrasted with essence: the essence of an entity is its essential features or qualities, which can be understood even if one doe ...

East Asian age reckoning Traditional East Asian age reckoning covers a group of related methods for reckoning human ages practiced in the East Asian cultural sphere, where age is the number of calendar years in which a person has been alive; it starts at 1 at birth and i ...

, an Asian system of marking age starting at 1 *

Ageing Ageing (or aging in American English) is the process of becoming older until death. The term refers mainly to humans, many other animals, and fungi; whereas for example, bacteria, perennial plants and some simple animals are potentially biol ...

or aging, the process of becoming

older Older is the comparative form of " old". It may refer to: Music * ''Older'' (George Michael album), 1996 ** "Older" (George Michael song), 1996 * ''Older'' (Lizzy McAlpine album), 2024 ** "Older" (Lizzy McAlpine song), 2024 * "Older" (5 Seco ...

Senescence Senescence () or biological aging is the gradual deterioration of Function (biology), functional characteristics in living organisms. Whole organism senescence involves an increase in mortality rate, death rates or a decrease in fecundity with ...

, the gradual deterioration of biological function with age **

Human development (biology) Development of the human body is the process of growth to maturity. The process begins with fertilization, where an egg released from the ovary of a female is penetrated by a sperm cell from a male. The resulting zygote develops through mito ...

Periodization In historiography, periodization is the process or study of categorizing the past into discrete, quantified, and named blocks of time for the purpose of study or analysis.Adam Rabinowitz.It's about time: historical periodization and Linked Ancie ...

, the process of categorizing the past into discrete named blocks of time **

Ages of Man The Ages of Man are the historical stages of human existence according to Greek mythology and its subsequent interpretatio romana, Roman interpretation. Both Hesiod and Ovid offered accounts of the successive ages of humanity, which tend to pr ...

, 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 Wangerooge Airfield, German: ''Flugplatz Wangerooge'' , is a small airfield on Wangerooge, one of the East Frisian Islands and a municipality of Lower Saxony, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in C ...

, in Lower Saxony, Germany

People

Åge Åge is a Norwegian masculine given name. Variants include the Danish/Norwegian Aage and the Swedish Åke. People with the name Åge include: * Åge Aleksandersen (born 1949), Norwegian singer, songwriter and guitarist * Åge Austheim (born 1983), ...

, a given name *

Aage Aage is a Danish masculine given name and a less common spelling of the Norwegian given name Åge. Variants include the Swedish name Åke. People with the name Aage include: First name * Count Aage of Rosenborg (1887–1940), Danish prince and o ...

, a given name *

Agenore Incrocci Agenore Incrocci (4 July 1919 – 15 November 2005), best known as Age, was an Italian screenwriter, considered one of the fathers of the as one of the two members of the duo Age & Scarpelli, together with Furio Scarpelli. Biography Incrocci w ...

, 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 ''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ...

'', 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 * ' 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), ''Age'' (genus), a genus of moth * Arterial gas embolism or AGE, a blood vessel blockage caused by gas bubbles * 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