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Definition of Solar year
1. Noun. The time for the earth to make one revolution around the sun, measured between two vernal equinoxes.
Definition of Solar year
1. Noun. The time it takes the Earth to pass once around the Sun, for instance from vernal equinox to vernal equinox. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Solar Year
Literary usage of Solar year
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"To understand the reason of the changes we must remember (1) that by treating
365 days as equivalent to one solar year and to 12 lunations plus 11 days, ..."
2. Navigation and Nautical Astronomy: The Practical Part, Containing Rules for by H. W. Jeans (1853)
"Now in one solar year the sun separates from the first point of Aries 360°, taking
into consideration its own apparent motion from west to east, ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The lunar year, consisting of twelve lunar months, contains only 354 days; its
commencement consequently anticipates that of the solar year by eleven days, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Their astronomical solar year is, in fact, not the tropical year, ... The length
of this sidereal solar year was determined in the following manner. ..."
5. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1883)
"It is purely a matter of convenience, a division of the 365 days of the solar
year into twelve periods, as nearly equal as possible. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The lunar year, consisting of twelve lunar months, contains only 354 days; its
commencement consequently anticipates that of the solar year by eleven days, ..."
7. The Indian Calendar: With Tables for the Conversion of Hindu and Muhammadan by Robert Sewell, Sankara Balkrishna Dikshit (1896)
"It was, in most parts of India, a solar year, but the different customs of ...
Thus the year is already a solar year, as it was evidently intended to be ..."
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