Definitions for Saros

Saros sa·ros

Spelling: [sair-os]
IPA: /ˈsɛər ɒs/

Saros is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in Saros (aorss).

Definitions for Saros

noun

  1. the period of 223 synodic months, equaling 6585.32 days or 18 years, 11.32 days (or 10.32 days if 5 leap years occur in the interval), after which eclipses repeat but are shifted 120° west.
  2. Gulf of, an inlet of the Aegean, N of the Gallipoli Peninsula. 37 miles (60 km) long; 22 miles (35 km) wide.

Origin of Saros

1605-15; Greek sáros ≪ Akkadian shār

Examples for Saros

Komenský's activity as a teacher while at saros Patak was indefatigable.

He is against its being so far north as the Gulf of saros and the narrow neck of land there.

Two ridges, like sprawling arms, ran down to the sea—one towards the Narrows, the other to the Gulf of saros.

Eclipses occur in cycles, the best known of which is the saros, although there are also smaller cycles which are not so accurate.

One further matter connected with the saros deserves attention.

This recurrence of eclipses after intervals of 18·03 years is called the saros, and was known to the Chaldeans.

The discovery of the saros was such as was within their power, and was certainly no small achievement.

This cycle was known to the ancients under the name of saros.

A rapid cruiser of the fleet carried the Egyptian standard along the coast as far as the regions of the Orontes and saros.

This eclipse is a return, after one saros, of the eclipse of August 9, 1896.

Word Value for Saros
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