Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word EPACT
EPACT
Definitions of EPACT
- the time (number of days) by which a solar year exceeds twelve lunar months; it is used in the calculation of the date of Easter
Number of letters
5
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using EPACT in a Sentence
- Whenever the epact reaches or exceeds 30 days, an extra (embolismic or intercalary) lunar month is inserted into the lunar calendar, and the epact is reduced by 30 days.
- The twelve dials around the centre dial show the following (starting from the dial in the 2 o'clock position and going clockwise): the equation of time, the zodiac, the solar cycle and the dominical letter, the week, the globe, the months, the calendar dates, the seasons, the tides, the age of the moon, the phases of the moon and the metonic cycle and the epact.
- A Perpetual almanack: Shewing, the prime, epact, cycle of the sun, dominical letter, moon's age, high water, day of the month, day of the week, what days of the month all the Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, &c.
- They include the “golden number” (which gives the dates of all the new moons for the year in a 19-year Metonic cycle), the solar cycle (the 28-year cycle of the Julian calendar and 400-year cycle of the Gregorian calendar with respect to the week), the epact (the age of the Moon in days on a certain date), the dominical letter (used to determine the day of the week for particular dates) and the indiction (the number of a given year in a fifteen-year period).
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