How do you use Synodic in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Synodic meaning
- Of, related to or produced by a synod; synodal.
- Of or pertaining to the conjunction of two or more heavenly bodies.
Using Synodic
- The main meaning on this page is: Of, related to or produced by a synod; synodal. | Of or pertaining to the conjunction of two or more heavenly bodies.
- In the example corpus, synodic often appears in combinations such as: synodic month, the synodic, synodic months.
Context around Synodic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 6 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Synodic
- In this selection, "synodic" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, mean, lunations, 235, month, months and period stand out and add context to how "synodic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 3 4 synodic month and a synodic month is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "synodic" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with synodic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The time interval between similar lunar phases—the synodic month —averages about 29.53 days. (15 words)
In general, 15-months-cycles and 17-months-cycles alternated for compliance with the synodic month. (16 words)
A lunation or synodic month is the mean (average) time from one new moon to the next. (17 words)
However, because Earth is moving in its orbit around the Sun at the same time, it takes slightly longer for the Moon to show the same phase to Earth, which is about 29.5 days (its synodic period ). (38 words)
Due to the eccentricity of the lunar orbit around Earth (and to a lesser degree, the Earth’s elliptical orbit around the Sun), the length of a synodic month can vary by up to seven hours. (36 words)
The next approximation (arising from continued fractions) after the Metonic cycle (such as a 334-year cycle) is very sensitive to the values one adopts for the lunation (synodic month) and the year, especially the year. (36 words)
Example sentences (14)
Accordingly, for convenience, a long-term average length, identical to the mean synodic month of ancient times (also called the molad interval) is used.
Additionally, the synodic month does not fit easily into the year, which makes accurate, rule-based lunisolar calendars complicated.
Although there're many stories to interpret the intercalation, but a period of 22 or 23 days is always 3/4 synodic month.
A lunation or synodic month is the mean (average) time from one new moon to the next.
A synodic month is longer than a sidereal month because the Earth-Moon system is orbiting the Sun in the same direction as the Moon is orbiting the Earth.
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.
Due to the eccentricity of the lunar orbit around Earth (and to a lesser degree, the Earth’s elliptical orbit around the Sun), the length of a synodic month can vary by up to seven hours.
However, because Earth is moving in its orbit around the Sun at the same time, it takes slightly longer for the Moon to show the same phase to Earth, which is about 29.5 days (its synodic period ).
In general, 15-months-cycles and 17-months-cycles alternated for compliance with the synodic month.
The difference between the two periods (of 19 years and 235 synodic months) is only a few hours, depending on the definition of the year.
The mean period of the lunar month (precisely, the synodic month ) is very close to 29.5 days.
The next approximation (arising from continued fractions) after the Metonic cycle (such as a 334-year cycle) is very sensitive to the values one adopts for the lunation (synodic month) and the year, especially the year.
The time interval between similar lunar phases—the synodic month —averages about 29.53 days.
This is because, coincidentally, Mercury's rotation period is almost exactly half of its synodic period with respect to Earth.
Common combinations with synodic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: