Month
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title:
Month
text:
A month is a unit of time, used with calendars, that is approximately as long as a natural phase cycle of the Moon; the words month and Moon are cognates. The traditional concept of months arose with the cycle of Moon phases; such lunar months ("lunations") are synodic months and last approximately 29.53 days, making for roughly 12.37 such months in one Earth year. From excavated tally sticks, researchers have deduced that people counted days in relation to the Moon's phases as early as the Pale
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Unit of time about as long the orbital period of the Moon
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Month
date created:
2001-11-09T15:04:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T21:16:20Z
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