tropical year
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The second feature of the new Gregorian calendar was a change in the rule for leap year, making the average length of the year more closely approximate the tropical year.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
The basic period of revolution of Earth, called the tropical year, is 365.2422 days.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
The Julian calendar approximated the mean tropical year as 365.25 days and proposed 366-day leap years for every one divisible by four.
From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2011
This rate is known as the mean tropical year.
From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2011
A tropical year is, however, about six hours longer than three hundred and sixty-five days, and by throwing away six hours annually, there would be an entire day lost every four years.
From Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846 by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe
