ANOMALISTIC YEAR

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again; 365 days and 6 hr and 13 min and 53.1 sec

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("anomalistic year" is a kind of...):

year (the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun)

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