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Meanings of tropical year in English

Portuguese
ano
Catalan
any solar

The time for the earth to make one revolution around the sun, measured between two vernal equinoxes.

        ano
        Russian
        тропический год
        Portuguese
        ano trópico
        Spanish
        año solar
        Catalan
        any tròpic

        Period of time for the ecliptic longitude of the Sun to increase 360°

                Related terms
                тропический год
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                Examples for "solar year"
                Examples for "solar year"
                1
                The flood lasts twelve months and ten days, i.e., exactly a solar year.
                Prolegomena to the History of Israel
                2
                The Egyptians were the only people in the Old World to frame a solar year.
                Early European History
                3
                The cycle in which the Earth travels around the sun is called the solar year.
                A Wiccan Bible
                4
                The length of the solar year first accurately determined by Dionysius, in the astronomical canon.
                The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 / (From the Ris...
                5
                Distant periods they calculated by the solar year, but for short intervals they reckoned by lunations.
                The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation
                1
                It's not a perfect system: The Gregorian year is 27 seconds longer than the astronomical year.
                Wired
                2
                The complexities of the calendar allow Ramadan to occur at any time of the astronomical year.
                The Irish Times
                Usage of tropical year in English
                1
                And now, by a variety of indications, it was manifest that the winter of the tropical year was at hand.
                The Island Home
                2
                It also approximates a tropical year, the time it takes for the Earth to complete a full orbit around the sun.
                Wired
                3
                It was now the spring of the tropical year: the deciduous trees were renewing their verdure, and were covered with young shoots, and bursting leaf-buds.
                The Island Home