inex

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noun

An eclipse cycle of 10,571.95 days, or 358 lunations.

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Meanings

nouninex (plural inexes)

plural inexes

  1. An eclipse cycle of 10,571.95 days, or 358 lunations.

Origin

term coined by George van den Bergh in the Dutch book Regelmaat en wisseling bij zonsverduisteringen published in 1951 and translated to English in 1955.

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