title: Age
text: # Age
  
  Age or AGE may refer to:
  
  ## Time and its effects
  
  * Age, the amount of time someone or something has been alive or 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
  * 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
  