Lunisolar

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lunisolar \Lu"ni*so"lar\, a. [L. luna moon + E. solar: cf. F.
     lunisolaire.]
     Resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual
     relations, of the sun and moon.
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     {Lunisolar precession} (Astron.), that portion of the annual
        precession of the equinoxes which depends on the joint
        action of the sun and moon.
  
     {Lunisolar year}, a period of time, at the end of which, in
        the Julian calendar, the new and full moons and the
        eclipses recur on the same days of the week and month and
        year as in the previous period. It consists of 532 common
        years, being the least common multiple of the numbers of
        years in the cycle of the sun and the cycle of the moon.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lunisolar
       adj : relating to or attributed to the moon and the sun or their
             mutual relations