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Definition of Equinoctial year
1. Noun. The time for the earth to make one revolution around the sun, measured between two vernal equinoxes.
Definition of Equinoctial year
1. Noun. solar year ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Equinoctial Year
Literary usage of Equinoctial year
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of Astronomy by John Frederick William Herschel (1869)
"... which being greater than 365-242264, shows that the equinoctial year current
has changed, and the latter number being subtracted, ..."
2. The Museum of Science and Art by Dionysius Lardner (1855)
"equinoctial year.—98. Civil year.—99. Difference between it and the Julian year.—100.
Effect of this difference.— 101. Cause of the reformation of the ..."
3. Outlines of Astronomy by John Frederick William Herschel (1851)
"... which being greater than 365-242264, shows that the equinoctial year current
has changed, and the latter number being subtracted, ..."
4. Astronomy by Simon Newcomb, Edward Singleton Holden (1883)
"He therefore concluded that the true length of the equinoctial year was 365 days
5 hours and about 53 minutes. When, however, he considered the return of ..."
5. Library of Useful Knowledge (1834)
"The year from equinox to equinox is called the equinoctial year, or sometimes
the tropical year ; for his time of returning from tropic to tropic, ..."
6. The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the Year by Great Britain Nautical Almanac Office (1837)
"At the end of the equinoctial year, n will have passed this meridian 305 times,
and have performed, besides, a portion of its 366th diurnal revolution, viz. ..."
7. Astronomy for High Schools and Colleges by Simon Newcomb, Edward Singleton Holden (1887)
"He therefore concluded that the true length of the equinoctial year was 365 days,
5 hours, and about 53 minutes. When, however, he considered the return, ..."
8. A Treatise on Astronomy, Theoretical and Practical by Robert Woodhouse (1823)
"In this year a complete circle of 360° is described, whereas, in the equinoctial
year, an angle equal to 36O° — 50". 1 (supposing 50". ..."
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