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calendars

Their origins and global applications. This unit has much more information than any of the other subject groups.

The best place to start is with this directory of Calendar Elements which will take you to a multitude of pages that include the history of calendars, months and days in other languages, and other related references about this time indicator with several illustrations that should make this journey more interesting.

This entry is located in the following unit: Special Contents of Interest (page 2)
Calendar Elements Links
(calendars from Roman to modern times)
Calendar or Calendars Bibliography
(books that have served as sources of information for the compilations of the various calendar histories and modern usages of several chronological topics)
Calendar, Historical Background
(calendars past and present)
Word Entries containing the term: “calendars”
Every calendar's days are numbered.
This entry is located in the following unit: paraprosdokian, paraprosdokia (page 3)
Word Entries at Get Words: “calendars”
calendar (s) (noun), calendars (pl)
The division of the year into months, weeks, and days and the method of ordering the years (past, present, and future): Virginia checked the calendar in her kitchen to see what day of the week her daughter's birthday was on in June.

From year one, an assumed date of the birth of Jesus, dates are calculated backwards (B.C., "before Christ" or B.C.E., "before common era") and forwards (A.D., Latin anno Domini, "in the year of the Lord", or C.E. "common era").

This entry is located in the following units: Astronomy and related astronomical terms (page 5) Measurements and Mathematics Terms (page 4)
Word Entries at Get Words containing the term: “calendars”
lunar calendar (s) (noun), lunar calendars (pl)
A measure of the year based on twelve lunar months: The lunar calendar is formed by employing the time it takes the Moon to revolve around the Earth), which lasts about 354.37 days.
This entry is located in the following units: Astronomy and related astronomical terms (page 15) Science and Technology Words from the Ancient Past to the Present, Part 1 (page 4)
solar calendar (s) (noun), solar calendars (pl)
A measure of the year based on Earth's revolution around the Sun, which takes 365.2422 days: The solar calendar is used in most countries of the world today.

This entry is located in the following units: Astronomy and related astronomical terms (page 23) Science and Technology Words from the Ancient Past to the Present, Part 1 (page 6)