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year vs anomalistic year

anomalistic year vs year

year and anomalistic year both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
year Yes No No No
anomalistic year Yes No No No
As nouns, anomalistic year is a hyponym of year; that is, anomalistic year is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than year:
  • year: the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun
  • anomalistic year: time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again; 365 days and 6 hr and 13 min and 53.1 sec
year (noun) anomalistic year (noun)
a body of students who graduate together time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again; 365 days and 6 hr and 13 min and 53.1 sec
the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun
a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity
Difference between year and anomalistic year

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