Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Lunisolar"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Lunisolar \Lu"ni*so"lar\, a. [L. luna moon + E. solar: cf. F.
lunisolaire.]
Resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual
relations, of the sun and moon.

{Lunisolar precession} (Astron.), that portion of the annual
precession of the equinoxes which depends on the joint
action of the sun and moon.

{Lunisolar year}, 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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

lunisolar
adj : relating to or attributed to the moon and the sun or their
mutual relations


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