Definitions
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- noun The period of time, just under 19 years, between successive lunar or solar eclipses occurring when the sun, earth, and moon are in the same positions relative to one another.
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- noun history A period of 3600 years.
- noun astronomy A period of 223
synodic months (approximately 18 years 11 days 8 hours), after which the relative positions of the earth, sun and moon recur, used to predicteclipses .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The saros cycle predicts that, following a solar or lunar eclipse, a similar eclipse will occur 223 lunar months later.
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The complicated meshing of the gears is a physical representation of the so-called Callippic and saros astronomical cycles.
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The complicated meshing of the gears is a physical representation of the so-called Callippic and saros astronomical cycles.
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The saros cycle predicts that, following a solar or lunar eclipse, a similar eclipse will occur 223 lunar months later.
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The decades of a saros would not be long enough for me to write all they meant to the ragged apprentice boy I was.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
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These eclipses belonged to 26 different saros series and included all the umbral eclipses of the 19 years preceding 1938, in order to include all the saros series now running which produce umbral eclipses.
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Conchoid curves are obtained for those eclipses in which the moon's penumbra reaches the northern limits to which the sun is visible; such eclipses are those near the ends of a saros or exeligmos series.
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Eclipses recur at intervals of 6585.3 days (18 years and 10 or 11 days), which period is called a saros.
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While this is only a small proportion of the 152 saros series in Oppolzer's Kanon, the uniformity of results makes them probably typical.
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From this event to the Persian conquest was a period of 36,000 years, or an astronomical cycle called _saros_.
God and my Neighbour Robert Blatchford 1897
fbharjo commented on the word saros
saros 223 synodic month period of sun and moon
January 17, 2007