Sothic period
English
Noun
Sothic period (plural Sothic periods)
- (astronomy) The roughly 1460-year period of time between successive alignments of the first days of the Egyptian civil calendar and the observational Sothic year.
Synonyms
- canicular period
- Great Year
Related terms
References
- "Sothic, adj.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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