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Sidereal year

noun

The time for the earth to make one complete revolution around the sun, relative to the fixed stars.

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... inundation of the Nile, following the changing cycles of the stars, could not but have incited them to the watching and predicting of astronomical movements. Their observations led them to discover the length, very nearly, of the sidereal year, which they made to consist of 365 days, every fourth year adding one day, making the number for that year 366. They also divided the year into twelve months of thirty days each, adding five days to complete the year. This was the calendar that Julius Caesar introduced into the ...

— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers

Words linked to "Sidereal year" : year, sidereal time