Usually means: Time Earth orbits Sun once.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. tropical year: Merriam-Webster
  2. tropical year: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. tropical year: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tropical year: Vocabulary.com
  5. tropical year: Wordnik
  6. tropical year: Wiktionary
  7. tropical year: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. tropical year: Dictionary.com
  9. Tropical year: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. tropical year: Rhymezone
  11. tropical year: FreeDictionary.org
  12. tropical year: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. tropical year: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tropical year: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tropical Year: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Tropical Year: Extragalactic Astronomy

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  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See tropical_years as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tropical year)

noun:  The time that it takes for the Sun to return to the same position along the ecliptic, as viewed from the Earth, especially, completing a full cycle of seasons.
noun:  (in particular) A vernal equinox year; the time between two successive vernal equinoxes.
noun:  (by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star, taking into account orbital precession.

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