draconic month

[ drey-kon-ik muhnth, druh-kon-ik ]

noun
  1. See under month (def. 5).

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draconic month

noun
  1. astronomy the mean time taken by the moon between successive passages through the ascending node of its orbit. It is about 2.5 hours shorter than the sidereal month: Also called: nodical month

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