anomalistic year

1. 1.

   time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again; 365 days and 6 hr and 13 min and 53.1 sec

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Questions about anomalistic year

What does anomalistic year mean?

anomalistic year means "time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again; 365 days and 6 hr and 13 min and 53.1 sec".

Is anomalistic year a common word?

anomalistic year is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.