English-Italian translations for year

• anno
  L'anno prossimo sarà l'Anno polare internazionale. Next year is International Polar Year.
  I volumi aumentano di anno in anno. The volumes are increasing year on year.
  Si tratta di un ambito in forte espansione, anno dopo anno. This is one big growth area year by year.
• quinta
  La nostra Assemblea ha già detto che sarebbe opportuno avere, dopo l'anno 2000, una quinta Convenzione di Lomé. This House has already said that it would be appropriate to have, after the year 2000, a fifth Lomé Agreement.
  Nel programma per il prossimo anno manca la quinta relazione sulla coesione: era stata promessa per giugno 2008. I am missing the Fifth Cohesion Report in the plan for next year: it was promised for June 2008.
  Attualmente la Francia sta trasponendo la direttiva sulla libera circolazione nell'ambito della quinta riforma in sette anni della legge sull'immigrazione. France is currently transposing the directive on freedom of movement as part of the fifth revision of its immigration laws in seven years.

Definition of year

• A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference
• The time it takes for any astronomical object in direct orbit around a star to make one revolution around the star
• A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar
• A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity
• A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a
• The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year

Examples

• we moved to this town a year ago;  I quit smoking exactly one year ago
• Mars goes around the sun once in a Martian year, or 1.88 Earth years
• A normal year has 365 full days, but there are 366 days in a leap year
• I was born in the year 1950
• This Chinese year is the year of the Rooster
• During this school year I have to get up at 6:30 to catch the bus
• Every second-year student must select an area of specialization
• The exams in year 12 at high school are the most difficult
• Geneticists have created bakers yeast that can live to 800 in yeast years

Related words

• month#Related terms|month
• week#Related terms|week
• day#Related terms|day
• tercentennial
• tercentenary
• kyr
• yearthousand
• millennial