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year 2000 compliant year 2000 compliant, a. (Computers) having dates fully and properly represented, and not susceptible to failure due to the {year 2000 bug}.

Syn: date compliant. [PJC]

to spanish

year [j??r] año
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to french

year [j??r] an, année
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to deutch

year [j??r] Jahr
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year dates [j??rdeits] Jahreszahlen
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year of (the) war [j??r?fð?r] Kriegsjahr
kriegsjahr.idoneos.com

year of birth [j??r?fb???] Geburtsjahr
geburtsjahr.idoneos.com

year of construction [j??r?fk?nstr?k??n] Baujahr
baujahr.idoneos.com

year of one s life [j??r?fw?nzlaif] Lebensjahr
lebensjahr.idoneos.com

year of service [j??r?fs??vis] Dienstjahr
dienstjahr.idoneos.com

year of travel [j??r?ftræv?l] Wanderjahr
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to italian

year anno
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to latin

year [j??r] annus
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Bible Dictionary

Year
the highest ordinary division of time. Two years were known to,and apparently used by, the Hebrews.

A year of 360 days appears to have been in use in Noah stime.

The year used by the Hebrews from the time of the exodus may:be said to have been then instituted, since a current month,Abib, on the 14th day of which the first Passover was kept,was then made the first month of the year. The essentialcharacteristics of this year can be clearly determined,though we cannot fix those of any single year. It wasessentially solar for the offering of productions of theearth, first-fruits, harvest produce and ingathered fruits,was fixed to certain days of the year, two of which were inthe periods of great feasts, the third itself a feastreckoned from one of the former days. But it is certain thatthe months were lunar, each commencing with a new moon. Theremust therefore have been some method of adjustment. The firstpoint to be decided is how the commencement of each gear wasfixed. Probably the Hebrews determined their new year s dayby the observation of heliacal or other star-risings orsettings known to mark the right time of the solar year. Itfollows, from the determination of the proper new moon of thefirst month, whether by observation of a stellar phenomenonor of the forwardness of the crops, that the method ofintercalation can only have been that in use after thecaptivity,--the addition of a thirteenth month whenever thetwelfth ended too long before the equinox for the offering ofthe first-fruits to be made at the time fixed. The later Jewshad two commencements of the year, whence it is commonly butinaccurately said that they had two years, the sacred yearand the civil. We prefer to speak of the sacred and civilreckonings. The sacred reckoning was that instituted at theexodus, according to which the first month was Abib; by thecivil reckoning the first month was the seventh. The intervalbetween the two commencements was thus exactly half a year.It has been supposed that the institution at the time of theexodus was a change of commencement, not the introduction ofa new year, and that thenceforward the year had twobeginnings, respectively at about the vernal and the autumnalequinox. The year was divided into--

Seasons . Two seasons are mentioned in the Bible, "summer"and "winter." The former properly means the time of cuttingfruits, the latter that, of gathering fruits; they aretherefore originally rather summer and autumn than summer andwinter. But that they signify ordinarily the two granddivisions of the year, the warm and cold seasons, is evidentfrom their use for the whole year in the expression "summerand winter." (psalms 74:17; zechariah 14:18)

Months . [MONTHS]

Weeks . [WEEKS][[1307]Jubilee, The Year Of, YEAR OF]