The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

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The course of a heavenly body round a centre; the interval of time occupied by a heavenly body in its consecutive return to the same meridian.

Sidereal Revolution. The time occupied by a planet in passing round the sun.

Synodic Revolution. When the earth, the planet and the sun come again in the same relative positions.

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