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SOLAR YEAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does solar year mean?
• SOLAR YEAR (noun)
The noun SOLAR YEAR has 1 sense:
1. the time for the earth to make one revolution around the sun, measured between two vernal equinoxes
Familiarity information: SOLAR YEAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The time for the earth to make one revolution around the sun, measured between two vernal equinoxes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
astronomical year; equinoctial year; solar year; tropical year
Hypernyms ("solar year" is a kind of...):
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)
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