solstices in English

noun
1
either of the two times in the year, the summer solstice and the winter solstice , when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, marked by the longest and shortest days.
The minimum length of shadow during a day is less in summer than in winter and at the solstices it changes from lengthening to shortening or visa versa.

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1. There arc four seasons, or rather four solar points of the year, the solstices and equinoxes.

2. Celestial events and highlights of 2021 and 2022 including supermoons, solar and lunar eclipses, meteor showers, solstices, and equinoxes.

3. 20 There arc four seasons, or rather four solar points of the year, the solstices and equinoxes.

4. The natural rotation of Earth around the sun forms the basis for the Astronomical calendar, in which we define seasons with two solstices and two equinoxes

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6. The posts are “aligned with the points of the compass, and so arranged that a forty-ninth post outside the circle permitted an observer within to view the sunrise at the equinoxes and solstices in A.D. 1000.”