Article: Precepts, 613

Article: solar year
A Dictionary of Physics;      3 words ...solar year See year .

Article: Meton
A Dictionary of Scientists;      171 words ......designed to bring the lunar month and the solar year into some form of acceptable agreement...month is about 29½ days and the solar year is 365¼ days there is no way a whole...the full cycle. This would produce a solar year only 30 minutes too long. The Metonic...

Article: epact
A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units;      48 words ...epact time The (number of) days by which a full solar year exceeds a year of 12 full lunar months, else, particularly...of days after the new moon) at the start of the calendrical solar year. More generally, any length of intercalary days.

Article: Here's how calendar really works
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 31, 2000 ;     700+ words ......the length of another simple unit, the solar year, but it was not known that the fundamental...the gap between the solar day and the solar year. The lunar month, we now know, is about...almost 11 days shorter than the true solar year, which has 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes...

Article: Husband arrested for wife's murder in Takhar.
Pajhwok;  January 13, 2009 ;     508 words ......8, in the second month of current solar year was going to her fields in Srai Sang...been registered during the current solar year which includes 77 rape cases. As the statistic of previous solar year was 1800 registered cases while in...

Article: calendars
The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature;      515 words ......roughly 365¼ days, that is, the solar year, which is about eleven days longer than twelve lunar months. Hence, when the solar year is divided into twelve months, the beginning...only 354 days, adjustment to fit the solar year had to be made, and the magistrates did...

Article: CALENDAR CONFUSION.(development of calendars)
Odyssey;  December 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......months were added to coordinate with the solar year. THE EGYPTIANS. The Egyptians designed...calendar came up 61 1/4 days short of the solar year. The bad math quickly caught up with...when it was needed to balance out the solar year. However, they didn't always remember...

Article: Putting an old site in a new light; Yale grad student shows Peruvian hill was solar observatory 2,300 years ago
New Haven Register;  March 11, 2007 ;     618 words ......rituals. The ridge covers the entire solar year and was created 500 years before Mayan...contains alignments that cover the entire solar year." From the more prominent western viewing...is likely that its builders divided a solar year into units of 10 to 12 days, with a precision...

Article: That's one way to measure success
Chicago Sun-Times;  January 6, 1998 ;     377 words ......invented because the 365-day Gregorian calendar did not quite fit the 365.25-day solar year. But even this did not do the job because the 365.25-day solar year is actually a 365.24219-day year. Which means that even with leap years, we would...

Article: THE NEW YEAR IS AN OLD STORY-JUST ASK CAESAR.(News)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......minutes and 3 seconds. The other was the solar year, which consists of 365 days, 5 hours...and 46 seconds. Trying to divide the solar year into months of 24-hour days led to all...354 days, 11 days shorter than the true solar year. Thirteen lunar months would make a year...

Article: intercalary
Webster's NewWorld Dictionary;      53 words ......r'k ler|e) adj. 1. added to the calendar: said of a day, month, etc. inserted in a calendar year to make it correspond to the solar year 2. having such a day, month, etc. added: said of a year 3. interpolated or inserted Copyright 1994, 1991, 1988 Simon &...

Article: Agriculture department revenue up after reforms.
Pajhwok Afghan News (Kabul, Afghanistan);  April 13, 2009 ;     287 words ......News they had received 2 million afghani over the outgoing solar year, five times more than the previous year. The main reason behind...department had drafted a development plan for the ongoing solar year, which had been sent to the relevant ministry for approval...

Article: ASK THE GLOBE
The Boston Globe;  January 21, 1990 ;     177 words ......in measuring time. We have leap years because the 365-day solar year -- the time it takes the sun to pass from one vernal equinox...years to make up the difference between a calendar year and a solar year. The addition of a 29th day to the month of February, however...

Article: YEAR
Young Students Learning Library;      174 words ......around the sun. There are several kinds of year. One is the solar year, which is the interval between one vernal (spring) equinox...so it ``loses'' about 6 hours every year compared to the solar year. Every fourth calendar year (leap year) lasts 366 days to...