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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The average period of revolution of the moon around the earth in reference to a fixed star, equal to 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes in units of mean solar time.
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- noun period between successive conjunctions with a star, 27.322 days
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