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saros
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Saros \Sa"ros\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?] (Astron) A Chaldean astronomical period or cycle, the length of which has been variously estimated from 3,600 years to 3,600 days, or a little short of 10 years. --Brande & C. A length of time (6535.82 days, or 18 years ...
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The saros is a period of approximately 223 synodic months (approximately 6585.3211 days, or 18 years, 11 days, 8 hours), that can be used to predict eclipses of the Sun and Moon . One saros period after an eclipse, the Sun, Earth , and Moon return to approximately ...
Usage examples of saros.
Name of Calandra Vissi, originally from Saros, in transit to assignment on Kalapriya.
There is such a one in the stone town, and once or twice in each saros one of those he has called to him will sup with us.
The decades of a saros would not be long enough for me to write all they meant to the ragged apprentice boy I was.