solar year

noun

1. See year

solar year

1. See under solar time

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

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

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