Age or AGE may refer to:

Time and its effects

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

existed Existence is the ability of an entity to interact with reality. In philosophy, it refers to the ontological property of being. Etymology The term ''existence'' comes from Old French ''existence'', from Medieval Latin ''existentia/exsistentia ...

** East Asian age reckoning, an Asian system of marking age starting at 1 *

Ageing Ageing ( BE) or aging ( AE) is the process of becoming older. The term refers mainly to humans, many other animals, and fungi, whereas for example, bacteria, perennial plants and some simple animals are potentially biologically immortal. In ...

or aging, the process of becoming older **

Senescence Senescence () or biological aging is the gradual deterioration of functional characteristics in living organisms. The word ''senescence'' can refer to either cellular senescence or to senescence of the whole organism. Organismal senescence inv ...

, 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 Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use ...

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 * ' 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) 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 geochrono ...

Age (model theory) Age or AGE may refer to: Time and its effects * Age, the amount of time someone or something has been Life, alive or has existed ** East Asian age reckoning, an Asian system of marking age starting at 1 * Ageing or aging, the process of becoming o ...

, an aspect of mathematical model theory *

Applied general equilibrium In mathematical economics, applied general equilibrium (AGE) models were pioneered by Herbert Scarf at Yale University in 1967, in two papers, and a follow-up book with Terje Hansen in 1973, with the aim of empirically estimating the Arrow–Debreu ...

or AGE, a model in mathematical economics

Other uses

Agé Agé (or AgeSherman, Josepha, ''Storytelling: An Encyclopedia of Mythology and Folklore'', Routledge (2015), p.500/ref>) is a god in the mythology of the Fon people The Fon people, also called Fon nu, Agadja or Dahomey, are a Gbe ethnic group.

, a god of the Fon people of Africa