Examples from the web for solar year
- Five rogue days were tacked on the end of the cycle to complete the solar year.
- These dates coincide with none of the four great hinges on which the solar year revolves, to wit, the solstices and the equinoxes.
- They predicted eclipses, explained the movements of planets, and devised a sophisticated calendar of the solar year.
- Finding a system that reconciled the lunar year with the solar year was the great challenge of calendar-making.
- Astronomy was sufficiently understood for the accurate measurement of time in the divisions of the solar year.
British Dictionary definitions for solar year