Sothic cycle

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Noun

Sothic cycle (plural Sothic cycles)

  1. (astronomy) The roughly 1460-year cycle between successive alignments of the first days of the Egyptian civil calendar and the observational Sothic year.

References

  • "Sothic, adj.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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