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Word	Definition
inexnoun	An eclipse cycle of 10,571.95 days, or 358 lunations.
regular	(chiefly US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
yearnoun	The length of a year as marked by a calendar, 365 or 366 days in the Gregorian calendar; a calendar year.
equinoctial yearnoun	solar year
leap yearnoun	A year in the Julian or Gregorian calendar with an intercalary day added to February (in the Gregorian calendar, February 29), used to adjust for the extra hours of the solar year; a 366-day year.
metonic cyclenoun	(astronomy, calendar studies) A particular approximate common multiple of the tropical year and the synodic month; in other words, the 19-year period over which the lunar phases occur on the same dates.
synodic monthnoun	the variably cyclic period from one new moon until the next.
leap daynoun	An extra day intercalated into a year, especially the day intercalated into the Julian calendar every fourth year and into the Gregorian calendar every fourth year excepting centuries not divisible by 400, usually reckoned as February 29th.
bissextile yearnoun	a year with an extra day, a leap year
quadragesimanoun	(Christianity) Synonym of Lent.
annumnoun	Synonym of year.
æquinoxnoun	Obsolete spelling of equinox. [One of two times in the year (one in March and the other in September) when the length of the day and the night are equal, which occurs when the sun is directly overhead at the equator; this marks the beginning of spring in one hemisphere and autumn in the other.]
month of consecutionnoun	(astronomy) A month as reckoned from one conjunction of the moon with the sun to another.
monthnoun	A period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon.
a year and a daynoun	(idiomatic) A long time.
lunationnoun	The irregular period from one new moon until the next.
lunar monthnoun	A synodic month of approximately 29.53 days, measured from a lunar phase until the return of that same phase.
novendialnoun	(of a religious ceremony) Lasting nine days, especially in relation to the period of mourning for a Pope.
solar yearnoun	Synonym of tropical year.
idesnoun	(historical, often capitalized) The notional full-moon day of a Roman month, occurring on the 15th day of the four original 31-day months (March, May, Quintilis or July, and October) and on the 13th day of all other months.