Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or caused by both the sun and the moon.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Depending jointly on the motions or actions of the moon and the sun: as, the lunisolar cycle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon.
- adjective (Astron.) that portion of the annual precession of the equinoxes which depends on the joint action of the sun and moon.
- adjective a period of time, 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 and month and year as in the previous period. It consists of 532 common years, being the least common multiple of the numbers of years in the cycle of the sun and the cycle of the moon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of a calendar Based on both the
lunar month and thesolar year. - adjective Pertaining to or caused by both the moon and the sun.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or attributed to the moon and the sun or their mutual relations
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Muslim calendar is lunar, the Gregorian is solar, but the Jewish and Chinese calendars are lunisolar, meaning that they try to cram 12 months into a tropical year.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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The Muslim calendar is lunar, the Gregorian is solar, but the Jewish and Chinese calendars are lunisolar, meaning that they try to cram 12 months into a tropical year.
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Star festivals are celebrated in several Asian countries including Japan, China, Vietnam, and Korea in summer, on the seventh day of the seventh month or the eighth month if going by the Chinese lunisolar calendar.
Archive 2010-06-01 Michael James 2010
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Star festivals are celebrated in several Asian countries including Japan, China, Vietnam, and Korea in summer, on the seventh day of the seventh month or the eighth month if going by the Chinese lunisolar calendar.
Star Festival Decoration Set Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2010
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The Chinese calendar is a lunisolar, incorporating elements of a lunar calendar with those of a solar calendar.
Cardboy Chinese Calendar 2008 | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2008
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In the Hindu calendar, which is lunisolar calendar, the embolismic month is called adhika maas (extra month).
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Isn't this culturally insensitive to Muslims - especially given that the Islamic calendar is actually lunar, rather than lunisolar like the Chinese one?
Boing Boing 2006
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Other common lunisolar calendars are the Hindu chāndra māna, the Buddhist calendar (used across Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar) and Hebrew calendar, so it seems a bit much.
Boing Boing 2006
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In the Hindu calendar, which is lunisolar calendar, the embolismic month is called adhika maas (extra month).
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Japanese New Year (正月, shōgatsu) was based on the Chinese lunisolar calendar and celebrated at the beginning of spring, Japanese still have a custom of sending New Year Post card and most cards have the Chinese zodiac sign of the twelve animals.
qms commented on the word lunisolar
At night he is solemn and lazy,
Distracted and quietly hazy.
He must be bipolar
Or else lunisolar -
In daylight he rages like crazy.
March 24, 2016