A cycle of 19 years, which contains 235 lunations, and results in a correspondence of the solar and lunar years. The discovery of this astronomical period may be safely assigned to Meton in 432 B.C.
·adj Pertaining to, or discovered by, Meton, the Athenian. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·noun An age; a long period of time. II. Cycle ·noun An orderly list for a given time; a calendar. ...
A term generally applied to an interval of time in which the same phenomena recur. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·add. ·- An ideal heat-engine cycle in which the working fluid goes through the following four succe...
·add. ·noun A four-stroke cycle, as the Otto cycle, for an internal-combustion engine. ...
·add. ·- The cycle for the air engine proposed by Joule. In it air is taken by a pump from a cold ch...
·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Motorcycle>>. ...
·add. ·- A four-stroke cycle for internal-combustion engines consisting of the following operations:...
·add. ·noun A two-stroke cycle for an internal-combustion engine. ...
A period of about 6586 days, which is the time of a revolution of the moon's node; after the lapse o...