English-French translations for metonic cycle

• cycle métonique

Definition of metonic cycle

• A particular approximate common multiple of the tropical year and the synodic month; in other words, the 19-year period over which the lunar phases occur on the same dates

Examples

• According to the Metonic cycle, a lunar calendar begins on the same solar date every 19 years.

Related words

• metonymy
• metonymic
• metonym
• metonymical
• metonymically
• oxydemeton-methyl
• Smetonian
• Smetonist