Saros

Word SAROS
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Definitions and meanings of "Saros"

What do we mean by saros?

The period of time, just under 19 years, between successive lunar or solar eclipses occurring when the sun, earth, and moon are in the same positions relative to one another. noun

A period of 3600 years. noun

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. noun

(history, Babylon) A quantity of 3600, such as a period of 3600 years.

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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The word "saros" in example sentences

The saros cycle predicts that, following a solar or lunar eclipse, a similar eclipse will occur 223 lunar months later. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The complicated meshing of the gears is a physical representation of the so-called Callippic and saros astronomical cycles. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The decades of a saros would not be long enough for me to write all they meant to the ragged apprentice boy I was. ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1980)

Eclipses recur at intervals of 6585.3 days (18 years and 10 or 11 days), which period is called a saros. ❋ Unknown (1938)

While this is only a small proportion of the 152 saros series in Oppolzer's Kanon, the uniformity of results makes them probably typical. ❋ Unknown (1938)

These eclipses belonged to 26 different saros series and included all the umbral eclipses of the 19 years preceding 1938, in order to include all the saros series now running which produce umbral eclipses. ❋ Unknown (1938)

Conchoid curves are obtained for those eclipses in which the moon's penumbra reaches the northern limits to which the sun is visible; such eclipses are those near the ends of a saros or exeligmos series. ❋ Unknown (1938)

From this event to the Persian conquest was a period of 36,000 years, or an astronomical cycle called _saros_. ❋ Robert Blatchford (1897)

The Babylonians knew the decimal system, but for practical purposes they counted by _sossi_ and _sari_, the _sossos_ representing 60, the _saros_ 60 × 60, or 3,600. ❋ Unknown (1861)

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