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Meanings of astronomical year in inglés
The time for the earth to make one revolution around the sun, measured between two vernal equinoxes.
Synonyms
Examples for "solar year"
Examples for "solar year"
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The flood lasts twelve months and ten days, i.e., exactly a solar year.
2
The Egyptians were the only people in the Old World to frame a solar year.
3
The cycle in which the Earth travels around the sun is called the solar year.
4
The length of the solar year first accurately determined by Dionysius, in the astronomical canon.
5
Distant periods they calculated by the solar year, but for short intervals they reckoned by lunations.
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And now, by a variety of indications, it was manifest that the winter of the tropical year was at hand.
2
It also approximates a tropical year, the time it takes for the Earth to complete a full orbit around the sun.
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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.
Usage of astronomical year in inglés
1
It's not a perfect system: The Gregorian year is 27 seconds longer than the astronomical year.
2
The complexities of the calendar allow Ramadan to occur at any time of the astronomical year.