Definition of Solar year

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

Exact synonyms: Astronomical Year, Equinoctial Year, Tropical Year
Generic synonyms: Year

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

solar sail
solar sails
solar still
solar system
solar systems
solar telescope
solar therapy
solar thermal system
solar time
solar topee
solar tracker
solar trap
solar urticaria
solar wind
solar winds
solar year (current term)
solar years
solaria
solarimeter
solarimeters
solarisation
solarisations
solarise
solarised
solarises
solarising
solarism
solarisms
solarist
solarists

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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