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solar cycle

noun

, Astronomy.
  1. the variation of sunspots, prominences, flares, and other solar activity through an 11-year cycle.


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Example Sentences

Forty-nine years make a convenient luni-solar cycle, reconciling the lunar month and the tropical solar year.

This, as has already been explained, is the dominical or solar cycle.

This period is called the dominical or solar cycle, and restores the first day of the year to the same day of the week.

The solar cycle is a period of time after which the same days of the year recur on the same days of the week.

Cycles used in chronology are three: The solar cycle, the lunar cycle, and the cycle of indiction.

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