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, 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 Melville Weston Fuller (February 11, 1833 – July 4, 1910) was an American politician, attorney, and jurist who served as the eighth chief justice of the United States from 1888 until his death in 1910. Staunch conservatism marked his t ...

* ''

The New York Age ''The New York Age'' was an American weekly newspaper established in 1887 in New York City. It was widely considered one of the most prominent African-American newspapers of its time.

'', African-American newspaper from 1887 to 1960

Businesses and organizations

âge is a Japanese adult video games, adult video game and visual novel brand owned by . They have also produced work under the names Mirage and Φâge. âge was formerly known as Relic and developed video games for consoles. It gained fame followin ...

, a Japanese media company *

Agricultural & General Engineers Agricultural & General Engineers Limited (AGE) was a holding company formed on 4 June 1919 during a postwar economic "boom" to combine five British engineering companies: Aveling & Porter, E H Bentall, Blackstone, Richard Garrett and J & F Howard. ...

or AGE, a group of engineering companies * ' or AGE, the Galician Left Alternative, a political party in Spain *

American Aging Association The American Aging Association is a non-profit, tax-exempt biogerontology organization of scientists and laypeople dedicated to biomedical aging studies and geroscience, with the goal of slowing the aging process to extend the healthy human li ...

or AGE, an organization for aging studies *

Associated Gas and Electric Howard Colwell Hopson (May 8, 1882 – December 22, 1949) was an American businessman who was convicted of defrauding Americans of more than $20 million (roughly million dollars in ). p.621 Hopson built his company, Associated Gas and Electric ( ...

, a defunct American power company from New York

Languages

East Angal language Angal, or Mendi, is an Engan language complex of the Southern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half o ...

(ISO-639: age) *

Esimbi language Esimbi is a Tivoid language of southwestern Cameroon. It is also called Isimbi, Simpi, Age, Aage, Bogue and Mburugam. Writing system High tone is indicated with an acute accent and medium tone is indicated with a macron. References Lang ...

or Age, a language of the Cameroons

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

* ''Age'' (genus), a genus of moth *

Arterial gas embolism An air embolism, also known as a gas embolism, is a blood vessel blockage caused by one or more bubbles of air or other gas in the circulatory system. Air can be introduced into the circulation during surgical procedures, lung over-expansi ...

or AGE, a blood vessel blockage caused by gas bubbles *

Advanced glycation end-product Advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) are proteins or lipids that become Glycation, glycated as a result of exposure to sugars. They are a bio-marker implicated in aging and the development, or worsening, of many degenerative diseases, such as dia ...

s or AGEs, proteins or lipids that become glycated as a result of exposure to sugars

Other sciences

Age (geology) The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth. It is a system of chronological dating that uses chronostratigraphy (the process of relating strata to time) and geochron ...

Age (model theory) 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 ...

, 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