Sentence examples for solar year from inspiring English sources
noun
The time it takes the Earth to pass once around the Sun, for instance from vernal equinox to vernal equinox.
(The Iranian calendar, however, is based on a solar year).
The stairs are an "abstract realisation of the solar year".
The Julian calendar, however, made the solar year slightly too long by adding a full quarter of a day annually the solar year actually runs 365.2422 days.
In every solar year (or year of the seasons), there are about 12.37 synodic months.
Intercalary months have been inserted to keep the calendar year in step with the solar year of about 365 days.
Finding a system that reconciled the lunar year with the solar year was the great challenge of calendar-making.
The duration of the solar year had been calculated with amazing accuracy, as well as the synodical revolution of Venus.
Adjustment to the solar year of about 365 days is made by intercalation of an extra month every three years.
A solar year is about 365 1/4 days, or about 52 weeks and 1 1/4 days.
Two basic calendars, a 260-day divinatory calendar and one based on the solar year of 365 days, were found throughout the area.
The story was set in a time long ago, when, at the dawning of the new solar year, all manner of rules could be broken.
