lunisolar calendar

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• Lunisolar calendar — A lunisolar calendar is a calendar in many cultures whose date indicates both the moon phase and the time of the solar year. If the solar year is defined as a tropical year then a lunisolar calendar will give an indication of the season; if it is …   Wikipedia

• lunisolar calendar — noun a calendar based on both lunar and solar cycles • Hypernyms: ↑calendar • Hyponyms: ↑Jewish calendar, ↑Hebrew calendar, ↑Hindu calendar …   Useful english dictionary

• CALENDAR — (Heb. לוּחַ, lu aḥ). The present Jewish calendar is lunisolar, the months being reckoned according to the moon and the years according to the sun. A month is the period of time between one conjunction of the moon with the sun and the next. The… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Calendar reform — A calendar reform is any significant revision of a calendar system. The term sometimes is used instead for a proposal to switch to a different calendar.Most calendars have several rules which could be altered by reform: * Grouping of days of the… …   Wikipedia

• calendar — calendrical /keuh len dri keuhl/, calendric, calendarial /kal euhn dair ee euhl/, calendarian, calendaric, adj. /kal euhn deuhr/, n. 1. a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year: He marked the date on his calendar. 2. any …   Universalium

• Calendar — For other uses, see Calendar (disambiguation). For the Gregorian calendar for this year, see Common year starting on Saturday. A page from the Hindu calendar 1871–1872. A calendar is a system of organizing days for social, religious, commercial,… …   Wikipedia

• Calendar era — A calendar era is the year numbering system used by a calendar. For example, the Gregorian calendar numbers its years in the Western Christian era (the Coptic and Ethiopic churches have their own Christian eras, see below). The instant, date, or… …   Wikipedia

• Lunisolar — Lu ni*so lar, a. [L. luna moon + E. solar: cf. F. lunisolaire.] Resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon. [1913 Webster] {Lunisolar precession} (Astron.), that portion of the annual precession… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Lunisolar precession — Lunisolar Lu ni*so lar, a. [L. luna moon + E. solar: cf. F. lunisolaire.] Resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon. [1913 Webster] {Lunisolar precession} (Astron.), that portion of the annual… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Lunisolar year — Lunisolar Lu ni*so lar, a. [L. luna moon + E. solar: cf. F. lunisolaire.] Resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon. [1913 Webster] {Lunisolar precession} (Astron.), that portion of the annual… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• lunisolar period — noun : a period of 532 years at the end of which in the Julian calendar the new and full moons and the eclipses recur on the same days of the week, month, and year as in the previous period …   Useful english dictionary