Definitions for epact

epact e·pact

Spelling: [ee-pakt]
IPA: /ˈi pækt/

Epact is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in epact (acept).

Definitions for epact

noun

  1. the difference in days between a solar year and a lunar year.
  2. the number of days since the new moon at the beginning of the calendar year, January 1.

Origin of epact

1545-55; Late Latin epacta Greek epaktḗ, noun use of feminine of epaktós added, equivalent to ep- ep- + ag(ein) to lead + -tos verbid suffix

Examples for epact

It is, however, only used in those years in which the epact 19 concurs with the golden number 19.

Having determined the epact of the year, it only remains to find Easter Sunday from the conditions already laid down.

The epact 19′ (also distinguished by an accent or different character) is placed in the same line with 20 at the 31st of December.

Thus we have the epact, or age of the Calendar moon at the beginning of the year.

Thus, when the epact is 17, the new and full moons of March fall on the 13th and 28th.

The epact thus continues to vary until at the end of nineteen years the new moons return as at first.

During those few and sombre days which represented the epact of the dying year, Martin Grimbal returned to Chagford.

The epact is the number of days which must be added to a lunar year to complete a solar year.

On account of the solar equation S, the epact J must be diminished by unity every centesimal year, excepting always the fourth.

In the calendar this epact first occurs before the 2nd of December at the 26th of November.

Word Value for epact
Scrable

9

Words with friends

11

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