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solar cycle
noun
, Astronomy.
- the variation of sunspots, prominences, flares, and other solar activity through an 11-year cycle.
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Forty-nine years make a convenient luni-solar cycle, reconciling the lunar month and the tropical solar year.
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This, as has already been explained, is the dominical or solar cycle.
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This period is called the dominical or solar cycle, and restores the first day of the year to the same day of the week.
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The solar cycle is a period of time after which the same days of the year recur on the same days of the week.
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Cycles used in chronology are three: The solar cycle, the lunar cycle, and the cycle of indiction.
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