epact

Meaning of epact

noun

the number of days by which the solar year exceeds the lunar year.

mid 16th century (denoting the age of the moon in days at the beginning of the calendar year): from French épacte, via late Latin from Greek epaktai (hēmerai) ‘intercalated (days)’, from epagein ‘bring in’, from epi ‘in addition’ + agein ‘bring’.

Information about epact

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of epact is: epacts.
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Hyphenation of epact

epact

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • epact is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of epact

Capet

Words that rhyme with epact

pact, bicompact, compact, disimpact, impact, incompact, nonimpact, postimpact, recompact, reimpact, semicompact, subcompact, ultracompact, uncompact

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