Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun anomalistic_year

1 sense of anomalistic year

Sense 1
anomalistic year -- (time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again; 365 days and 6 hr and 13 min and 53.1 sec)
       => year -- (the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun; "a Martian year takes 687 of our days")