Gregorian 音标拼音: [grəg'ɔriən]
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Gregorian adj 1 :
of or relating to Pope Gregory I or to the plainsong chants of the Roman Catholic Church 2 :
of or relating to Pope Gregory XIII or the calendar he introduced in 1582 Gregorian \
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Pertaining to ,
or originated by ,
some person named Gregory ,
especially one of the popes of that name .
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{
Gregorian calendar },
the calendar as reformed by Pope Gregory XIII .
in 1582 ,
including the method of adjusting the leap years so as to harmonize the civil year with the solar ,
and also the regulation of the time of Easter and the movable feasts by means of epochs .
See {
Gregorian year } (
below ).
{
Gregorian chant } (
Mus .),
plain song ,
or canto fermo ,
a kind of unisonous music ,
according to the eight celebrated church modes ,
as arranged and prescribed by Pope Gregory I . (
called "
the Great ")
in the 6th century .
{
Gregorian modes },
the musical scales ordained by Pope Gregory the Great ,
and named after the ancient Greek scales ,
as Dorian ,
Lydian ,
etc .
{
Gregorian telescope } (
Opt .),
a form of reflecting telescope ,
named from Prof .
James Gregory ,
of Edinburgh ,
who perfected it in 1663 .
A small concave mirror in the axis of this telescope ,
having its focus coincident with that of the large reflector ,
transmits the light received from the latter back through a hole in its center to the eyepiece placed behind it .
{
Gregorian year },
the year as now reckoned according to the Gregorian calendar .
Thus ,
every year ,
of the current reckoning ,
which is divisible by 4 ,
except those divisible by 100 and not by 400 ,
has 366 days ;
all other years have 365 days .
See {
Bissextile },
and Note under {
Style },
n .,
7 .
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