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Definition of: Metonic cycle
(mə·ton′ik)
A period of 19 Julian years, amounting to nearly 235 lunar revolutions, at the conclusion of which the phases of the moon recur at the same time of the year. [after Meton, Athenian astronomer of the fifth century B.C.]
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