Sothic cycle

English

Noun

Sothic cycle (plural Sothic cycles)

1. (astronomy) The roughly 1460-year cycle between successive alignments of the first days of the Egyptian civil calendar and the observational Sothic year.

Related terms

• Sothic year, Sothic period

References

• "Sothic, adj.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• cholecystic