"Sothic cycle" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Sothic cycles [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} Sothic cycle (plural Sothic cycles)
  1. (astronomy) The roughly 1460-year cycle between successive alignments of the first days of the Egyptian civil calendar and the observational Sothic year. Wikipedia link: Sothic cycle Categories (topical): Astronomy Related terms: Sothic year, Sothic period
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