Usually means: Nineteen-year lunar and solar synchronization.
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  1. Metonic cycle: Merriam-Webster
  2. Metonic cycle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Metonic cycle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Metonic cycle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Metonic cycle: Wiktionary
  6. Metonic cycle: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Metonic cycle: Dictionary.com
  8. Metonic Cycle, Metonic cycle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. metonic cycle: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Metonic cycle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. Metonic Cycle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  12. Metonic cycle: Merriam-Webster

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  1. metonic cycle: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metonic Cycle: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Metonic cycle)

noun:  (astronomy, calendar studies) A particular approximate common multiple of the tropical year and the synodic month; in other words, the 19-year period over which the lunar phases occur on the same dates.

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