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saros

saros

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Saros  \Sa"ros\,  n.  [NL.,  fr  Gr  ?]  (Astron) 
  A  Chaldean  astronomical  period  or  cycle,  the  length  of  which 
  has  been  variously  estimated  from  3,600  years  to  3,600  days, 
  or  a  little  short  of  10  years.  --Brande  &  C. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Cycle  \Cy"cle\  (s?"k'l),  n.  [F.  ycle,  LL  cyclus,  fr  Gr 
  ky`klos  ring  or  circle,  cycle;  akin  to  Skr.  cakra  wheel, 
  circle.  See  {Wheel}.] 
  1.  An  imaginary  circle  or  orbit  in  the  heavens;  one  of  the 
  celestial  spheres.  --Milton. 
 
  2.  An  interval  of  time  in  which  a  certain  succession  of 
  events  or  phenomena  is  completed,  and  then  returns  again 
  and  again  uniformly  and  continually  in  the  same  order  a 
  periodical  space  of  time  marked  by  the  recurrence  of 
  something  peculiar;  as  the  cycle  of  the  seasons,  or  of 
  the  year. 
 
  Wages  .  .  .  bear  a  full  proportion  .  .  .  to  the 
  medium  of  provision  during  the  last  bad  cycle  of 
  twenty  years.  --Burke. 
 
  3.  An  age;  a  long  period  of  time. 
 
  Better  fifty  years  of  Europe  than  a  cycle  of  Cathay. 
  --Tennyson. 
 
  4.  An  orderly  list  for  a  given  time;  a  calendar.  [Obs.] 
 
  We  .  .  .  present  our  gardeners  with  a  complete  cycle 
  of  what  is  requisite  to  be  done  throughout  every 
  month  of  the  year.  --Evelyn. 
 
  5.  The  circle  of  subjects  connected  with  the  exploits  of  the 
  hero  or  heroes  of  some  particular  period  which  have  served 
  as  a  popular  theme  for  poetry,  as  the  legend  of  Arthur  and 
  the  knights  of  the  Round  Table,  and  that  of  Charlemagne 
  and  his  paladins. 
 
  6.  (Bot.)  One  entire  round  in  a  circle  or  a  spire;  as  a 
  cycle  or  set  of  leaves.  --Gray. 
 
  7.  A  bicycle  or  tricycle,  or  other  light  velocipede. 
 
  {Calippic  cycle},  a  period  of  76  years,  or  four  Metonic 
  cycles;  --  so  called  from  Calippus  who  proposed  it  as  an 
  improvement  on  the  Metonic  cycle. 
 
  {Cycle  of  eclipses},  a  period  of  about  6,586  days,  the  time 
  of  revolution  of  the  moon's  node;  --  called  {Saros}  by  the 
  Chaldeans