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ANOMALISTIC YEAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does anomalistic year mean?
• ANOMALISTIC YEAR (noun)
The noun ANOMALISTIC YEAR has 1 sense:
1. time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again; 365 days and 6 hr and 13 min and 53.1 sec
Familiarity information: ANOMALISTIC YEAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again; 365 days and 6 hr and 13 min and 53.1 sec
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("anomalistic 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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