Lunations is an English word. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Lunations meaning
plural of lunation
Using Lunations
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of lunation
Context around Lunations
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lunations
- In this selection, "lunations" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, twelve, 235 and synodic stand out and add context to how "lunations" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 12 37 lunations so a and count of lunations in the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lunations" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aaargh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lunations
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Hebrew Lunation Number is the count of lunations in the Hebrew calendar with lunation 1 beginning on October 7, 3761 BC. (22 words)
Together, they reconcile solar and lunar cycles in marking the 235 lunations that occur during 19 solar years, regulating a lunar calendar. (22 words)
Because there are slightly more than twelve lunations ( synodic months ) in a solar year, the period of 12 lunar months (354.367 days) is sometimes referred to as a lunar year. (31 words)
Lunisolar calendars The solar year does not have a whole number of lunar months (it is about 12.37 lunations ), so a lunisolar calendar must have a variable number of months in a year. (34 words)
Because there are slightly more than twelve lunations ( synodic months ) in a solar year, the period of 12 lunar months (354.367 days) is sometimes referred to as a lunar year. (31 words)
The Hebrew Lunation Number is the count of lunations in the Hebrew calendar with lunation 1 beginning on October 7, 3761 BC. (22 words)
Example sentences (4)
Because there are slightly more than twelve lunations ( synodic months ) in a solar year, the period of 12 lunar months (354.367 days) is sometimes referred to as a lunar year.
Lunisolar calendars The solar year does not have a whole number of lunar months (it is about 12.37 lunations ), so a lunisolar calendar must have a variable number of months in a year.
The Hebrew Lunation Number is the count of lunations in the Hebrew calendar with lunation 1 beginning on October 7, 3761 BC.
Together, they reconcile solar and lunar cycles in marking the 235 lunations that occur during 19 solar years, regulating a lunar calendar.