The moon revolves around Earth once with respect to the sun in about 29 1/2 days, a period known as a synodic month. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
This striking series of lunar phases, constituting the synodic month, offered man another basic cosmological idea. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
While the complete workings of this ancient calendar may never be fully determined, it is clear that the textile contains three of the components suggested for the later Inka calendar: the solar, sidereal lunar, and synodic lunar cycles. From Wordnik.com. [Fabric of Time] Reference
When the subject came before that reverend body, the fathers and brethren thought fit to ordain a solemn humiliation to be observed through all the synodic bounds, with the view of turning away the affliction that distressed the poor family. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference
The month, however, being a convenient period of time, has retained its place in the calendars of all nations; but, instead of denoting a synodic revolution of the moon, it is usually employed to denote an arbitrary number of days approaching to the twelfth part of a solar year. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The moon goes through a complete cycle of phases in a synodic month. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Why, because twenty-seven days is about the synodic period of solar rotation. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbing Sun] Reference
The correlation with the synodic rotation of the Sun was practically perfect. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbing Sun] Reference
Barnouin's suggestion regarding the synodic years of various planets may not be correct. From Wordnik.com. [Kata Iwannhn] Reference
They determined correctly within a small fraction the length of the synodic revolution of the moon. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
S-Region to pass across the face of the Sun, since the synodic rotation is twenty-seven point three days. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbing Sun] Reference
This phase is known as the first quarter because it occurs one quarter of the way through the synodic month. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The synodic day (solar day) can range from about 23 hours 59 minutes 38 seconds to about 24 hours 29 seconds. From Wordnik.com. [Astroprof's Page] Reference
There were also tables of observations relating to the synodic revolution of the moon and the synodic periods of the planet. From Wordnik.com. [Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs] Reference
In fact, its 399-day synodic year places it in a different constellation of the Zodiac at the same point in each succeeding year. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]]
Because of the difference in the velocities of Mercury and the earth in their revolutions around the sun, one synodic revolution of. From Wordnik.com. [The Fire People] Reference
(Heaven save the mark!) spared us Herschel's notes of "the Moon's tropical, sidereal, and synodic revolutions," and the "phenomena of the syzygies," and proceeded at once to the pith of the subject. From Wordnik.com. [The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages] Reference
Full moons occur on average each 29.53 days (the length of the synodic month), or 12.3683 times per year; so months containing two full moons occur on average every 2.72 years, or every 2 years plus 8 or 9 months. From Wordnik.com. [Bisaya Bloggers] Reference
That means, however, that in order to complete one synodic day, or solar day (a point facing the Sun to once again face the Sun), the Earth will have to turn a little more near perihelion than it would near aphelion. From Wordnik.com. [Astroprof's Page] Reference
The intervals between her successive reappearances in the evening sky, measured by her synodic period of 584 days, are sufficiently long to give an element of surprise and novelty to every return of so dazzling a phenomenon. From Wordnik.com. [Other Worlds Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries] Reference
For one thing, while it may be the case that some of the men in Genesis 5 and 11 lived lives which correspond in length to the sums of the synodic periods of some planets, I haven't yet seen an argument that all of those men did. From Wordnik.com. [Kata Iwannhn] Reference
This is the difference between what we call the sidereal day (the time that it takes to make one complete rotation) and the synodic day (the time that it takes to go from the Sun highest in the sky until the Sun is again at its highest in the sky). From Wordnik.com. [Astroprof's Page] Reference
This is the synodic month of 29.5 days. From Wordnik.com. [Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers] Reference
The Saros cycle is an eclipse cycle with a period of 223 synodic months (approximately. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism] Reference
2,300 solar years contain 28,447 synodic months, of which 847 are intercalary, or epact months. 2,300 years are 840,057 days. From Wordnik.com. [The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture] Reference
477616 ".724; and the duration of the mean synodic revolution of the moon, or lunar month, is therefore 360°/(12 × 360° + 477616" .724) × 365.25 =. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
The synodic day is closer to 24 hours. From Wordnik.com. [Astroprof's Page] Reference
The synodic period of Mars is roughly 26 months. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
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