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Saros
(history, Babylon) A quantity of 3600, such as a period of 3600 years.
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noun
- 1
(history, Babylon) A quantity of 3600, such as a period of 3600 years.
- 2
A period of 223 synodic months (approximately 18 years 11 days 8 hours), after which the relative positions of the earth, sun and moon recur, used to predict eclipses.
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