calendar year

calendar year
(cal yr)
   a civil unit of time, equal to 365 days or (in leap years) 366 days. See year2. In archaeology, climatology, and other sciences studying the earth over the last 40 000 years or so, a careful distinction must be made between calendar years (cal yr) and radiocarbon years (14C yr).

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