Meaning of calendar | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any system by which time is divided into days, weeks, months, and years.
2. To enter in a calendar; schedule.
3. A means to determine the date consisting of a document containing dates and other temporal information.
4. a flgure-of-eight-shaped scale, for showing the declination of the sun and the equation of time for every day of the year. — analemmatic, adj.
5. A list of planned events.
6. the twenty-ninth day of February, added to the calendar every four years, except in centenary years evenly divisible by 400, to compensate for the discrepancy between the arbitrary 365-day calendar year and the actual time of the solar year. — bissextile, adj.
7. An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule.
8. Rare. a person who makes calendars.
9. An appointment book (US), appointment diary (UK)
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10. the study of the origin, growth, meaning, and history of Christian religious feasts. — heortological, adj.
11. in the Roman Empire, the cyclical, fifteen-year fiscal period, used for dating ordinary events. Also called cycle of indiction. — indictional. adj.
12. inserted into the calendar, as the twenty-ninth day of February in a leap year. — intercalation, n. — intercalative, adj.
13. the period of the moon’s synodic revolution, from the time of the new moon to the next new moon; one lunar month or approximately 29 1/2 days.
14. a period of five years.
15. the practice of eliminating the bissextile day every 134 years to adjust the date of the new moon. Cf. proemptosis.

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Examples

“The three principal calendars are the Gregorian, Jewish, and Islamic calendars.”

“Write his birthday on the calendar hanging on the wall.”

“The club has a busy calendar this year.”

“a calendar of bills presented in a legislative assembly; a calendar of causes arranged for trial in court”

“Shepherds of People, had need know the Kalenders of Tempeſts in State; which are commonly greateſt, when Things grow to Equality; As naturall Tempeſts are greateſt about the Æquinoctia.”

“The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.[…]The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.”

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