Time period (3 letters)

{ Answer }

ERA

{ Related Clues }

Age
Christian ___
Common ___
Disco ___
Epoch
Gaslight ___
Period
Christian or Caesarean
Chunk of history
Controversial amendment
Defeated Amendment
A goal of NOW
___ of good feeling
Group of periods
Historic period
Historical period
Historical time
One for the history books
Notable period
NOW cause
Period piece?
Piece of history
Pitching stat
Reconstruction, e.g.
Stat for Gossage
Tide competitor
Time in history
Time of the past
Time piece?
Long, long time
Pitcher's record: Abbr.
Time for the history books
Big name in real estate
Cy Young Award stat
Onetime feminist cause, for short
Stat that may be "adjusted"
Good thing to keep low on a diamond
When it's low, it's good

{ Tags }

age, amendment, baseball, big, cause, eg, epoch, era, feeling, good, historic, historical, history, notable, now, period, pitchers, pitching, stat, time, victorian

{ Notes }

The answer ERA is very common and appears about once every 16.5 puzzles.

{ Definition }

ERA as a noun:

1. (era, epoch) = a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event

2. (era, geological era) = a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods

3. (earned run average, ERA) = (baseball) a measure of a pitcher's effectiveness; calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched