GOLDEN NUMBER: GOLDEN NUMBER.
gold'-'-n num'-ber: Used in the regulation of the ecclesiastical calendar, in the "Metonic cycle" of 19 years, which almost exactly reconciles the natural month and the solar year.
See ASTRONOMY, sec. I, 5.
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GOLDEN NUMBER: GOLDEN NUMBER.
gold'-'-n num'-ber: Used in the regulation of the ecclesiastical calendar, in the "Metonic cycle" of 19 years, which almost exactly reconciles the natural month and the solar year.
See ASTRONOMY, sec. I, 5.
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