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单词 solar calendar
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solar calendar
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solar calendar
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Recently his cabinet declared that the administration is adopting a solar calendar in place of the old lunar one.
Economist(Dec 15, 2016)
It is in fact a lunar-solar mix, with an extra lunar month added every so often to stay in line with a wholly solar calendar.
Economist(Feb 12, 2015)
Sunday at “Woodhenge,” a huge circle of posts that is a reconstruction of the solar calendar used by Native Americans.
Washington Times(Dec 16, 2014)
n a calendar based on solar cycles
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Gregorian calendar, New Style calendar
the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752
Julian calendar, Old Style calendar
the solar calendar introduced in Rome in 46 b.c. by Julius Caesar and slightly modified by Augustus, establishing the 12-month year of 365 days with each 4th year having 366 days and the months having 31 or 30 days except for February
Revolutionary calendar
the calendar adopted by the first French Republic in 1793 and abandoned in 1805; dates were calculated from Sept. 22, 1792
church calendar, ecclesiastical calendar
a calendar of the Christian year indicating the dates of fasts and festivals
calendar
a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year
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