Saros Definition

sârŏs, särôs
noun
The eclipse cycle of the sun and moon, recurring at intervals of 6,585.32 days (c. 18 years)
Webster's New World
(history, Babylon) A period of 3600 years.
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Other Word Forms of Saros

Noun

Singular:
saros
Plural:
saroi, saroses

Origin of Saros

  • Medieval Greek from a misinterpretation of Greek saros Babylonian astronomical cycle of 3,600 years from Akkadian šār, šāru the number 3,600 from Sumerian šár

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • The modern astronomical usage is attributed to Edmond Halley, who erroneously interpreted the Babylonian word as a period of 18.5 years.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Ancient Greek, from Akkadian.

    From Wiktionary

Saros Sentence Examples

  • Scarcely a shot had since the beginning of Dec. been fired after dark by the British; Australasian and Indian troops, who were holding the long line stretching from the Gulf of Saros to near Gaba Tepe, so as to accustom the foe to quietude during the night watches.

  • The Aegean itself is naturally divided by the island-chains and the ridges from which they rise into a series of basins or troughs, the deepest of which is that in the north, extending from the coast of Thessaly to the Gulf of Saros, and demarcated southward by the Northern Sporades, Lemnos, Imbros and the peninsula of Gallipoli.

  • Of these the Slovaks are the most important,, having an overwhelming majority in seven counties (94'7% in Arva, 66.1% in Saros), a bare ma j ority in three (Szepes, Bars and Poszody) and a considerable minority in five (40.6% in Gomor, 22.9% in Abauj-Torna).

  • On March 10 Bulair was also bombarded from the Gulf of Saros.

  • The Saros of the Chaldaeans, the Olympiad of the Greeks, and the Roman Indiction are instances of this mode of reckoning time.

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