In addition to giving the days of multiples of the lunar synodic months, this table also gives the time of possible occurrences of both solar and lunar eclipses.
One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name.
Immediately below are five numbers, divided into the days of setting the measure of the mean-synodic age of the moon, and into signs, degrees of the signs, and of the distance of the moon from the sun.
The one [rotating] from the right likewise completes its cycle 12 times during the period of one mean-synodic moon.
The correlation with the synodic rotation of the Sun was practically perfect.
Why, because twenty-seven days is about the synodic period of solar rotation.
You see it takes about twelve days for an S-Region to pass across the face of the Sun, since the synodic rotation is twenty-seven point three days.
There were also tables of observations relating to the synodic revolution of the moon and the synodic periods of the planet Venus.
The sidereal year concerns the planet in its relation to the sun; the synodic year, in its relation to the earth.
His synodic period, or the period from one opposition to another, is a fraction less than three hundred and ninety-nine days, or about one year and a little more than a month.
The synodic period of Venus is nearly five hundred and eighty-four days, or a little more than one year and seven months.
This is the longest synodic period among the planets.
Owing to the great eccentricity of his orbit, and his consequent unequal motion in the various parts of it, the synodic period varies as much as thirty-five or thirty-six days.
But, lacking an almanac, one will generally find that Mercury will return to the same position relative to the earth and the sun within a few days of his mean synodic period.
But this mean synodic period is made up of synodic periods varying in different revolutions from one hundred and five to one hundred and thirty-four days.
Synodic is from our word synod, meaning a meeting or assembly, and the synodic year is the time between two successive and similar meetings of these three bodies.
The synodic year is the only one that much concerns us while regarding the planets as a part of the spectacle of the sky.
The mean synodic period of Mercury is about one hundred and sixteen days, or a little less than four months.
This is a brief outline of a typical journey of Venus through one synodic revolution.
The synodic period of Uranus is about three hundred and sixty-nine days, so that an opposition occurs about four or five days later each year.
The length of the amanta or synodic lunar month ranges, in accordance with periodical variations in the speed of the moon and the sun, from about 29 days 19 hrs.
On the other hand, the exact time of a synodic revolution of the moon is 29.
Long before the exact length of the year was determined, it must have been perceived that the synodic revolution of the moon is accomplished in about 29½ days.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "synodic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
