Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

SOLAR CYCLE

Definition: SOLAR CYCLE

SOLAR CYCLE

1. See under Cycle .

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definition: SOLAR CYCLE

Domain	Definition
Aerospace	The periodic increase and decrease in the number of sunspots. The cycle has a period of about 11 years. (references)
Science	Eleven-year cycle of sunspots and solar flares that affects other solar indexes such as the solar output of ultraviolet radiation and the solar wind. The Earth's magnetic field, temperature, and ozone levels are affected by this cycle. (references)
Solar	The approximately 11-year quasi-periodic variation in frequency or number of solar active events. (references)
Space	(or sunspot cycle)an irregular cycle, averaging about 11 years in length, during which the number of sunspots (and of their associated outbursts) rises and then drops again. Like the sunspots, the cycle is probably magnetic in nature, and the polar magnetic field of the Sun also reverses each solar cycle. (references)
Weather	The periodic change in sunspot numbers. It is the interval between successive minima and is about 11.1 years. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: SOLAR CYCLE

Specialty definitions using "SOLAR CYCLE": GROUND-LEVEL EVENT ♦ SOLAR MAXIMUM, SOLAR MINIMUM, Sunspot cycle. (references)

Modern Translation: SOLAR CYCLE

Language		Translations for "SOLAR CYCLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		solpletcyklus på 80 år (eighty-year cycle, eighty-year solar cycle, eighty-year solar sunspot cycle, eighty-year sunspot cycle, Gleissberg cycle), solpletcyklus på 11 år (eleven-year cycle, eleven-year solar cycle, eleven-year solar sunspot cycle, eleven-year sunspot cycle). (various references)

Dutch		tachtigjarige zonnecyclus (eighty-year cycle, eighty-year solar cycle, eighty-year solar sunspot cycle, eighty-year sunspot cycle, Gleissberg cycle), elfjarige zonnecyclus (eleven-year cycle, eleven-year solar cycle, eleven-year solar sunspot cycle, eleven-year sunspot cycle). (various references)

Finnish		auringon 11 vuoden sykli (eleven-year cycle, eleven-year solar cycle, eleven-year solar sunspot cycle, eleven-year sunspot cycle), 80 vuoden auringonpilkkusykli (eighty-year cycle, eighty-year solar cycle, eighty-year solar sunspot cycle, eighty-year sunspot cycle, Gleissberg cycle). (various references)

French		cycle solaire de quatre-vingts ans (eighty-year solar cycle, eighty-year solar sunspot cycle), cycle solaire de onze ans (eleven-year solar cycle, eleven-year solar sunspot cycle), cycle de quatre-vingts ans (eighty-year solar cycle, eighty-year solar sunspot cycle), cycle de onze ans (eleven-year solar cycle, eleven-year solar sunspot cycle), cycle de 11 ans (eleven-year solar cycle, eleven-year solar sunspot cycle). (various references)

German		Sonnenfleckenzyklus von 11 Jahren (eleven-year cycle, eleven-year solar cycle, eleven-year solar sunspot cycle, eleven-year sunspot cycle), Sonnenfleckenperiode von 11 Jahren (eleven-year cycle, eleven-year solar cycle, eleven-year solar sunspot cycle, eleven-year sunspot cycle), Periode von 80 Jahren (eighty-year cycle, eighty-year solar cycle, eighty-year solar sunspot cycle, eighty-year sunspot cycle, Gleissberg cycle), 80jährige Periode (eighty-year cycle, eighty-year solar cycle, eighty-year solar sunspot cycle, eighty-year sunspot cycle, Gleissberg cycle), 11jährige Periode (eleven-year cycle, eleven-year solar cycle, eleven-year solar sunspot cycle, eleven-year sunspot cycle). (various references)

Greek		ηλιακός κύκλος ογδόντα ετών (eighty-year cycle, eighty-year solar cycle, eighty-year solar sunspot cycle, eighty-year sunspot cycle, Gleissberg cycle), ενδεκαετής ηλιακός κύκλος (eleven-year cycle, eleven-year solar cycle, eleven-year solar sunspot cycle, eleven-year sunspot cycle), ογδοηκονταετής ηλιακός κύκλος (eighty-year cycle, eighty-year solar cycle, eighty-year solar sunspot cycle, eighty-year sunspot cycle, Gleissberg cycle). (various references)

Pig Latin		olarsay yclecay

Spanish		ciclo solar de 80 años (eighty-year cycle, eighty-year solar cycle, eighty-year solar sunspot cycle, eighty-year sunspot cycle, Gleissberg cycle), ciclo solar de 11 años (eleven-year cycle, eleven-year solar cycle, eleven-year solar sunspot cycle, eleven-year sunspot cycle), ciclo de 80 años (eighty-year cycle, eighty-year solar cycle, eighty-year solar sunspot cycle, eighty-year sunspot cycle, Gleissberg cycle), ciclo de 11 años (eleven-year cycle, eleven-year solar cycle, eleven-year solar sunspot cycle, eleven-year sunspot cycle). (various references)

Swedish		elvaårscykel (eleven-year cycle, eleven-year solar cycle, eleven-year solar sunspot cycle, eleven-year sunspot cycle), elvaårig solfläckscykel (eleven-year cycle, eleven-year solar cycle, eleven-year solar sunspot cycle, eleven-year sunspot cycle), 80-årig solfläckscykel (eighty-year cycle, eighty-year solar cycle, eighty-year solar sunspot cycle, eighty-year sunspot cycle, Gleissberg cycle), 11-årig solfläckscykel (eleven-year cycle, eleven-year solar cycle, eleven-year solar sunspot cycle, eleven-year sunspot cycle). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: SOLAR CYCLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-l-l-o-r-s-y"
	-2 letters: caloyers, calycles, coarsely, coracles, scarcely.
	-3 letters: callers, callose, caloyer, calyces, calycle, carcels, cecally, cellars, claroes, clearly, closely, coalers, collars, coracle, cyclase, cyclers, escolar, locales, loyaler, ocellar, oracles, rallyes, recalls, recoals, scleral, solacer.
	-4 letters: alleys, alloys, calces, caller, calory, carcel, carles, carols, cellar, cellos, ceorls, claros, clears, closer, coaler, coarse, collar, corals, corsac, creasy.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-l-l-o-r-s-y"
	+2 letters: calcareously.
	+4 letters: nonrecyclables, seriocomically.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: SOLAR CYCLE

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 4F 4C 41 52 43 59 43 4C 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001111 01001100 01000001 01010010 00100000 01000011 01011001 01000011 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#79 &#76 &#65 &#82 &#32 &#67 &#89 &#67 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004F 004C 0041 0052 0043 0059 0043 004C 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

534946355223759374639

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.