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FICTITIOUS YEAR

Specialty Definition: FICTITIOUS YEAR

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Aerospace

The period between successive returns of the sun to a sidereal hour angle of 80° (about January 1). Also called Besselian year, Bessel fictitious year.The length of the fictitious year is the same as that of the tropical year, since both are based upon the position of the sun with respect to the vernal equinox. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: FICTITIOUS YEAR

Specialty definitions using "FICTITIOUS YEAR": Bessel fictitious year, Besselian year. (references)

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Modern Translation: FICTITIOUS YEAR

Language Translations for "FICTITIOUS YEAR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

Besselsk år (Besselian fictitious year). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

Besselin vuosi (Besselian fictitious year). (various references)

   

French

  

année fictive de Bessel (Besselian fictitious year). (various references)

   

German

  

Besselsches Jahr (Besselian fictitious year). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ictitiousfay yearay

   

Spanish

  

año ficticio de Bessel (Besselian fictitious year). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Besselskt år (Besselian fictitious year). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: FICTITIOUS YEAR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-i-i-o-r-s-t-t-u-y"

-4 letters: atrocities, factitious, fictitious, fortuities.

-5 letters: artifices, astrocyte, austerity, craftiest, curiosity, eroticist, facetious, factories, fatuities, fractious, fruitiest, fruticose, raucities, reoutfits, rusticate, rusticity, toreutics, touristic, trifectas, urticates.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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