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Definition of Tropical year
1. Noun. The time for the earth to make one revolution around the sun, measured between two vernal equinoxes.
Definition of Tropical year
1. Noun. The time that it takes for the Sun to return to the same position along the ecliptic, as viewed from the Earth, especially: ¹
2. Noun. A vernal equinox year, the time between two successive vernal equinoxes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tropical Year
Literary usage of Tropical year
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short History of Astronomy by Arthur Berry (1899)
"Hence it becomes necessary to recognise, as Hipparchus did, two different kinds
of year, the tropical year or period required by the sun to return to the ..."
2. A Short History of Astronomy by Arthur Berry (1899)
"Hence it becomes necessary to recognise, as Hipparchus did, two different kinds
of year, the tropical year or period required by the sun to return to ..."
3. An Introduction to Astronomy by Forest Ray Moulton (1916)
"tropical year must be used. This is, indeed, the year in common use and, unless
otherwise specified, the term year means the tropical year. 117. ..."
4. A new dictionary of the English language by Charles Richardson (1839)
"... ме EAX. solar or tropical year, which contains 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes,
57 seconds ; and is the only proper or natural year, because it always ..."
5. Outlines of Astronomy by John Frederick William Herschel (1869)
"Their return is regulated by the tropical year, or the interval betwcen two ...
And thus arises a variation in the tropical year, which is dependent on the ..."
6. General Astronomy by Harold Spencer Jones (1922)
"In fact the tropical year : 360° - 50"-22 = sidereal year : 360°. A third year
is obtained by taking as starting-point the perihelion of the Earth's orbit. ..."
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