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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DRACONIC MONTH

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preposition
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Draconic month is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DRACONIC MONTH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

draconic month

Month

A month is a unit of time, used with calendars, which was first used and invented in Mesopotamia, as a natural period related to the motion of the Moon; month and Moon are cognates. The traditional concept arose with the cycle of moon phases; such months are synodic months and last approximately 29.53 days. From excavated tally sticks, researchers have deduced that people counted days in relation to the Moon's phases as early as the Paleolithic age. Synodic months, based on the Moon's orbital period with respect to the Earth-Sun line, are still the basis of many calendars today, and are used to divide the year.

Definition of draconic month in the English dictionary

The definition of draconic month in the dictionary is the mean time taken by the moon between successive passages through the ascending node of its orbit. It is about 2.5 hours shorter than the sidereal month Also called: nodical month.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DRACONIC MONTH

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dracaena
drachm
drachma
drachmae
drack
Draco
draco lizard
dracone
draconian
draconianism
draconic
draconically
Draconis
draconism
draconites
dracontiasis
Dracula
dracunculus
draff

WORDS THAT END LIKE DRACONIC MONTH

anomalistic month
billionth
calendar month
decillionth
flavour of the month
honeymonth
jillionth
lunar month
midmonth
millionth
month
nodical month
nonillionth
sidereal month
solar month
synodic month
trillionth
tropical month
twelvemonth
zillionth

Synonyms and antonyms of draconic month in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «draconic month» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DRACONIC MONTH

Find out the translation of draconic month to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of draconic month from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «draconic month» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

交点月
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mes dracónica
570 millions of speakers

English

draconic month
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अजगर का महीना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشهر draconic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

драконов месяц
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mês dracônico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ডার্কনিক মাস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mois draconique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bulan yang draconic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

drakonischen Monat
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

竜の月
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

용족 개월
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bulan sing draconic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tháng draconic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

டிராகன் மாதம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तापाचा महिना
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kuraklık ayı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mese draconico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Smoczy miesiąc
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

драконів місяць
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lună draconică
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

draconic μήνα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

drakoniese maand
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

draconic månad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

draconic måned
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of draconic month

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DRACONIC MONTH»

The term «draconic month» is barely ever used and occupies the 201.270 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DRACONIC MONTH» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about draconic month

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRACONIC MONTH»

Discover the use of draconic month in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to draconic month and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Homer's Secret Odyssey
The 19year cycle of 235 synodic months was not the only cycle over that period of time with whichHomermayhavebeen familiar.The second concerns the draconic month of 27.21 days, which is 'the interval between two successive passages of ...
Kenneth Wood, Florence Wood, 2011
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Find Your Way Through The Stars
Draconic Month: the plane of the Moon's orbit is tilted by approx 5° with respect to the plane of the ecliptic. The line of intersection of these planes defines the ascending and descending nodes. The plane of the Moon's orbit precesses over a ...
Zoltan Veres
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An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics
Use the preceding information to demonstrate than the lengths of a sidereal, tropical, synodic, anomalistic, and draconic month are 27.32166, 27.32158, 29.5306, 27.5546, and 27.2123 days, respectively. To first order in the Moon's orbital ...
Richard Fitzpatrick, 2012
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Spherical Astronomy
The mean interval from one perigee to the next is termed the anomalistic month, since it is the interval required for the moon's mean anomaly to increase by 360°. Finally, the Draconic month is defined as the mean interval between successive ...
Robin Michael Green, 1985
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Knowledge...: A Monthly Record of Science
Or, to use the technical terms, a “draconic " month is not the same as the “ synodic.” The synodic month, or lunation, the “ month " in the ordinary sense of the word, is 29 days 12 hours 44 minutes ; the draconic month, the return to the node, ...
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The Inner Solar System: The Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars
The draconic month is therefore the other basic period of eclipses. Resonance between these two periods results in an interval called the saros, after which time the Moon and the Sun return very nearly to the same relative positions. The saros  ...
Erik Gregersen, 2010
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Lord of the Cosmos: Mithras, Paul, and the Gospel of Mark
The lunar year is more variable than the solar one, and therefore replacing the equinoxes and solstices are ascending and descending “nodes,” the points in which the moon's orbit appears to cross the solar ecliptic in a draconic month.58 It ...
Michael Patella, OSB, 2006
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Skywatchers: A Revised and Updated Version of Skywatchers of ...
It is named the draconic month after the dragon who, the ancient Chinese believed, devoured the sun or moon during an eclipse. An eclipsed full moon will recur after a number of days equal to a whole multiple of the synodic and draconic ...
Anthony F. Aveni, 2001
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A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units
... 550~ days : 27 days 13 h 18 min 334~ s 1 draconic month : 27.212 221~ days : 27 days 5 h 5 min 35.9~ s Despite our visual perception being close to 30 days, the common understanding and hence the vernacular lunar month has 28 days; ...
Donald Fenna, 2002
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Maya Eclipses: Modern Astronomical Data, the Triple Tritos ...
The draconic month is the period the moon takes to return to the same position relative to the nodes of its orbit. Draconic refers to the dragon on pages 56 and 57, which eats the sun. The draconic month is 27.212220 days: slightly less than the ...
William E. Beck, 2007

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRACONIC MONTH»

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Predicting Eclipses: How Does the Saros Cycle Work?
Draconic month- the time it takes for the Moon to return to a similar intersecting node (ascending or descending) along the ecliptic (27.2 days). «Universe Today, Mar 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Draconic month [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/draconic-month>. May 2024 ».
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