Usually means: Eclipse cycle lasting eighteen years.
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  1. saros: Merriam-Webster
  2. saros: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. saros: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Saros: Wordnik
  5. saros: Wiktionary
  6. saros: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. saros: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Saros: Dictionary.com
  9. Saros (astronomy), Saros (software), Saros: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Saros: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. saros: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Saros: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. saros: FreeDictionary.org
  14. Saros: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Saros: Legal dictionary

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  1. saros: Encyclopedia

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  2. Saros: Medical dictionary

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Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Saros: Extragalactic Astronomy
  2. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)
  3. SAROS: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Definitions from Wiktionary (saros)

noun:  (history, Babylon) A quantity of 3600, such as a period of 3600 years.
noun:  (astronomy) A period of 223 synodic months (approximately 18 years 11 days 8 hours), after which the relative positions of the earth, sun and moon recur, used to predict eclipses.

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