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Saros logo #10101) Astronomical cycle 2) Eclipse cycle 3) Gulf in the Aegean sea 4) Gulf of Aegean Sea 5) Gulf of the Aegean 6) Gulf off Gallipoli 7) Technical factor of astrology 8) Text editor
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Saros

Saros logo #21000[astronomy] The saros s is a period of 223 synodic months (approximately 6585.3211 days, or 18 years and 11⅓ days), that can be used to predict eclipses of the Sun and Moon. One saros period after an eclipse, the Sun, Earth, and Moon return to approximately the same relative geometry, a near straight line, and a nearly identical eclipse w...
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Saros logo #21000[software] Saros is an Eclipse plug-in for distributed collaborative text editing that can support five participants at once (typically two or three). It can be used for a variety of purposes ranging from simple remote code review, over Remote pair programming, through to variants of Side-by-side programming with more than two participants....
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Saros

Saros logo #21002• (n.) A Chaldean astronomical period or cycle, the length of which has been variously estimated from 3,600 years to 3,600 days, or a little short of 10 years.
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saros logo #21003in astronomy, interval of 18 years 1113 days (1013 days when five leap years are included) after which the Earth, Sun, and Moon return to nearly the ... [2 related articles]
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Saros

Saros logo #21160A period of 18 years 11.32 days (6585.32 days), or 223 lunations, discovered by the Babylonians, after which the Sun, the Moon and the nodes of the Moon`s orbit return to virtually the same relative positions. This begins a new cycle of lunar and solar eclipses, the difference of a fraction of a day...
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Saros

Saros logo #20448The period after which the Sun, Earth and Moon return to approximately the same positions, this period being 18 years and 11.3 days. This period is very useful for eclipse prediction since one eclipse will be repeated by an almost identical event precisely one Saros later.
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Saros

Saros logo #20972Sa'ros noun [ New Latin , from Greek ...] (Astron) A Chaldean astronomical period or cycle, the length of which has been variously estimated from 3,600 years to 3,600 days, or a little short of 10 years. Brande & C.
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