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lunar year
lunar yearn. An interval of 12 lunar months.lunar year n (Units) See year6 year (yɪər)
n. 1. a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year). Compare common year, leap year. 2. a period of the same length in other calendars. 3. a. a space of 12 calendar months calculated from any point: We expect to finish in a year. b. fiscal year. 4. Astron. a. Also called lunar year. a division of time equal to 12 lunar months. b. Also called solar year. a division of time equal to 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds, representing the interval between one vernal equinox and the next. c. Also called sidereal year. a division of time equal to the solar year plus 20 minutes, the time it takes the earth to complete one revolution around the sun. 5. the time in which any planet completes a revolution around the sun. 6. a full round of the seasons. 7. a period out of every 12 months devoted to a certain pursuit, activity, or the like: the academic year. 8. years, a. age: a person of her years. b. old age: a man of years. c. time; period: the years of hardship. d. an unusually or markedly long time: We haven't spoken in years. 9. a group of students entering school or college, or those graduating in the same year; class. Idioms: year in and year out, regularly through the years. Also, year in, year out. [before 900; Middle English yeer, Old English gēar, c. Old Saxon, Old High German jār, Old Norse ār, Gothic jer; akin to Greek hôros year] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  lunar year - a period of 12 lunar months year - the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun; "a Martian year takes 687 of our days"lunar month, lunation, synodic month, moon - the period between successive new moons (29.531 days) |
lunar year
lunar year A year of 12 synodic months, each of 29.5306 days, i.e. a year of 354.3672 days. A lunar calendar is based solely on the Moon's motion; it has a year of 354 days with a leap year of 355 days and is composed of 12 months of 29 or 30 days. A lunisolar calendar is a lunar calendar that is brought into step with the solar or seasonal calendar by the intercalation (addition) of a 13th leap month.Lunar Year (religion, spiritualism, and occult)A lunar year is a year of 12 lunar months (12 synodic periods), or 354.367 days. There are 34 such lunar years for every 33 solar years. The traditional Muslim year is a lunar year. Many civilizations have utilized soli-lunar years, which retain the Moon’s synodic period for months but also insert an intercalary month to keep the years aligned with the period of Earth’s revolution around the Sun. Lunar Year the period of time that lies at the basis of lunar and lunisolar calendars. The lunar year consists of 12 lunar months having 29 or 30 days, and the lunar calendar can have 354 or 355 days. Years and months of different lengths are ordered such that a new moon would coincide exactly with the beginning of each month (12 synodic months total 354.3670 days). The beginning of each lunar year continuously changes with respect to the solar year and occurs at different times of the year. To eliminate this drawback a lunar year comprising 13 lunar months is used in lunisolar calendars. lunar year[′lü·nər ′yir] (astronomy) A time interval comprising 12 lunar (synodic) months. MedicalSeeyearFinancialSeeYearlunar year
Related to lunar year: lunar monthWords related to lunar yearnoun a period of 12 lunar monthsRelated Words- year
- lunar month
- lunation
- synodic month
- moon
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