NOUN
- the time for the earth to make one revolution around the sun, measured between two vernal equinoxes
How To Use solar year In A Sentence
- But since then our calendar year has been the same as the solar year.
- Here is a table of the number of daylight hours as a function of the time of year for the first 26 weeks of the solar year, for several co-latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere.
- In fact, some peoples still prefer lunar years to solar years.
- To make the solar year and the civil or calendar year coincide as nearly as might be, Numa ordered that a special or "intercalary" month should be inserted every second year between February 23rd and 24th. More Science From an Easy Chair
- There is also the ancient issue of aligning the man-made year with the solar year, but that's relatively easy to deal with by creating 31 September - or bequeathing another day to much-maligned February.
- Eclipses would help them to determine the length of the solar year and develop calendars based upon it.
- But since then our calendar year has been the same as the solar year.
- Even without the benefit of modern mathematics, tally rods show clearly and unequivocally a mismatch of about a third of a lunation between the end of 12 lunations (the lunar year) and the end of the solar year.
- So this is the end of the solar year, the solar year I set out to chronicle as I huddled by my parents' house in Missouri, waiting for the very first bird.
- Over a few years of observation the solar year is discovered to be 365.25 days in length, as accurate as our Roman solar calendar.
