Sothic cycle

noun

The roughly 1460-year cycle between successive alignments of the first days of the Egyptian civil calendar and the observational Sothic year.

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nounSothic cycle (plural Sothic cycles)

plural Sothic cycles

  1. astronomyThe roughly 1460-year cycle between successive alignments of the first days of the Egyptian civil calendar and the observational Sothic year.
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