Home > Blossary: Time Measurment
A list of terms relating to measurement of time.

Category: Science

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The Gregorian calendar is internationally the most widely used civil calendar. It has been the unofficial global standard for decades, recognised by international institutions such as the United ...

Domain: Mathematics; Category: Measurements

The Julian calendar was a reform of the Roman calendar. It was the predominant calendar in most of Europe, and in European settlements in the Americas and elsewhere, until it was refined and ...

Domain: Mathematics; Category: Measurements

The Hebrew or Jewish calendar is a lunisolar calendar used today predominantly for Jewish religious observances. It determines the dates for Jewish holidays and the appropriate public reading of ...

Domain: Mathematics; Category: Measurements

The Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar consisting of 12 months in a year of 354 or 355 days. It is used to date events in many Muslim countries, and used by Muslims everywhere to determine the ...

Domain: Mathematics; Category: Measurements

A lunar calendar is a calendar that is based on cycles of the lunar phases. Because there are slightly more than twelve lunations in a solar year, the period of 12 lunar months (354.37 days) is ...

Domain: Mathematics; Category: Measurements

The Maya calendar is a system of calendars used in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and in many modern communities in highland Guatemala and in Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas, Mexico. The essentials of the ...

Domain: Mathematics; Category: Measurements

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