kiertoaika — meaning in English
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English meaning
- year noun The time it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun once, about 365 days.
Senses
kiertoaika is used for these senses in English:
- round-trip time (telecommunications) The time elapsed for a message to travel to a remote location and then return.
- year (by extension) An orbital period: the period of one revolution in any particular orbit: The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star.
year — full definition
- noun The time it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun once, about 365 days.
- noun A twelve-month period as marked on a calendar, from January to December.
- noun A specific grade or level in school.