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solar year

noun as in one earth revolution around sun

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Forty-nine years make a convenient luni-solar cycle, reconciling the lunar month and the tropical solar year.

The adjustment of the solar year to correspond with the lunar year and of the two with the civil year dates from this period.

Astronomy was sufficiently understood for the accurate measurement of time in the divisions of the solar year.

Twelve lunar periods, making up approximately the solar year, gave peculiar importance to the number twelve also.

The length of the solar year first accurately determined by Dionysius, in the astronomical canon.

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On this page you'll find 2 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to solar year, such as: astronomical year, and tropical year.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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