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Solar year   /sˈoʊlər jɪr/   Listen
Solar year

noun
1.
The time for the earth to make one revolution around the sun, measured between two vernal equinoxes.  Synonyms: astronomical year, equinoctial year, tropical year.





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"Solar year" Quotes from Famous Books



... Yukteswar was concerned. The universal cycle of the scriptures is 4,300,560,000 years in extent, and measures out a Day of Creation or the length of life assigned to our planetary system in its present form. This vast figure given by the rishis is based on a relationship between the length of the solar year and a multiple of Pi (3.1416, the ratio of the circumference to the diameter ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda


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