英语词汇“metonic year”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Metonic cycle n. the cycle of 19 tropical years (conventionally equated to 235 synodic months) in which the moon returns to almost the same apparent position relative to the sun, so that new and full moons occur at the same dates in the corresponding year of each cycle. Also †Metonic period, †Metonic year.This cycle was widely adopted in eastern lunisolar calendars, and was the basis of the early Christian calculation of the date of Easter.

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prime?1574

Metonic period1669

Metonic year1669

lunar cycle1704

Metonic cycle1881

1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 957 In the second [book], the Author..treats of..several eminent Periods or Revolutions of Time, as the Metonick, Calippick, the Dionysian and Iulian Period.

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Metonic-Year, is the Space of 19 years, in which space of Time, the Lunations return and happen as they were before.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Metonick Year, or Period..'tis sometimes called The Great Metonic Year, and is the same with the Cycle of the Moon.

1744 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 652/2 Had this Metonic cycle of 19 years, or our Golden Number, hit this particular point of time with a sufficient exactitude.

1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 144/1 The first year of the first Metonic period commenced with the summer solstice of the year 432 b.c.

1881 R. Routledge Pop. Hist. Sci. i. 12 The golden number being simply the ordinal position of the year in the Metonic cycle of nineteen years.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 711/2 In this work the almanacs for the different months embrace three Metonic cycles.

1974 O. Pedersen & M. Pihl Early Physics & Astron. 381/2 He used the so-called Metonic cycle of 6940 days, almost equivalent to 19 solar years and to 235 synodic months.

1992 S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 92/2 Since 12 synodic months total 354.372 days, short of the tropical year by 10.87 days, long cycles were once calculated to try to find some way of reconciling the lunar and solar calendars. The most successful of these was the Metonic cycle.

单词	metonic year
释义	> as lemmas Metonic year Metonic cycle n. the cycle of 19 tropical years (conventionally equated to 235 synodic months) in which the moon returns to almost the same apparent position relative to the sun, so that new and full moons occur at the same dates in the corresponding year of each cycle. Also †Metonic period, †Metonic year.This cycle was widely adopted in eastern lunisolar calendars, and was the basis of the early Christian calculation of the date of Easter. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > cycle of time > [noun] > lunar cycle of nineteen years prime?1574 Metonic period1669 Metonic year1669 lunar cycle1704 Metonic cycle1881 1669 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 957 In the second [book], the Author..treats of..several eminent Periods or Revolutions of Time, as the Metonick, Calippick, the Dionysian and Iulian Period. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Metonic-Year, is the Space of 19 years, in which space of Time, the Lunations return and happen as they were before. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Metonick Year, or Period..'tis sometimes called The Great Metonic Year, and is the same with the Cycle of the Moon. 1744 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 652/2 Had this Metonic cycle of 19 years, or our Golden Number, hit this particular point of time with a sufficient exactitude. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 144/1 The first year of the first Metonic period commenced with the summer solstice of the year 432 b.c. 1881 R. Routledge Pop. Hist. Sci. i. 12 The golden number being simply the ordinal position of the year in the Metonic cycle of nineteen years. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 711/2 In this work the almanacs for the different months embrace three Metonic cycles. 1974 O. Pedersen & M. Pihl Early Physics & Astron. 381/2 He used the so-called Metonic cycle of 6940 days, almost equivalent to 19 solar years and to 235 synodic months. 1992 S. P. Maran Astron. & Astrophysics Encycl. 92/2 Since 12 synodic months total 354.372 days, short of the tropical year by 10.87 days, long cycles were once calculated to try to find some way of reconciling the lunar and solar calendars. The most successful of these was the Metonic cycle. extracted from Metonicadj. < as lemmas
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