tropical year

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This rate is known as the mean tropical year.

From Scientific American

By taking this amount from the sidereal we obtain the tropical year, which has reference to the seasons and the calendar.

From Project Gutenberg

Accurate observations with the elaborate apparatus used by professional astronomers show that this period, which is called a tropical year, is 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 46 seconds.

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The tropical year being thus ascertained, their tables showed the exact time of the equinox or sun's transit across the equatorial, and of the solstice.

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A tropical year is, however, about six hours longer than three hundred and sixty-five days, and by throwing away six hours annually, there would be an entire day lost every four years.

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