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CENTURY |
100-year period |
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CENTENARIAN |
100-year-old person |
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DECADE |
10-year period |
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TERM |
A period in a school year |
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OCTENNIAL |
Happening every eighth year; also, lasting a period of
eight years. |
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SEMESTER |
A period of six months; especially, a term in a college
or uneversity which divides the year into two terms. |
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SUMMER |
The season of the year in which the sun shines most
directly upon any region; the warmest period of the year. |
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UNDECENNIAL |
Occurring or observed every eleventh year; belonging
to, or continuing, a period of eleven years; undecennary; as, an
undecennial festival. |
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CARUCATE |
A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year
and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres. |
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JUBILEE |
Every fiftieth year, being the year following the
completion of each seventh sabbath of years, at which time all the
slaves of Hebrew blood wer... |
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ISOBAR |
A line connecting or marking places upon the surface of the
earth where height of the barometer reduced to sea level is the same
either at a gi... |
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MONTH |
One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided;
the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a
synodic revoluti... |
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CLIMACTERIC |
A period in human life in which some great change is
supposed to take place in the constitution. The critical periods are
thought by some to be... |
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ISOTHERM |
A line connecting or marking points on the earth's
surface having the same temperature. This may be the temperature for a
given time of observa... |
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OLYMPIAD |
A period of four years, by which the ancient Greeks
reckoned time, being the interval from one celebration of the Olympic
games to another, beg... |
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YEAR |
The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the
ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution
around the sun, c... |