Year vs Y - What's the difference?
year | y |
Y has no English definition.
The time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference).
(by extension) The time it takes for any planetary body to make one revolution around another body.
A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar.
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, title= A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.
(sciences) A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a".
A level or grade in school or college.
The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).
The twenty-fifth letter of the .
Symbol for the prefix yocto-.
close front rounded vowel
Denoting an item that is twenty-fifth in a list.
Image:Latin Y.png, Capital and lowercase versions of Y , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter Y.png, Uppercase and lowercase Y in Fraktur
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Y is likely misspelled.
Y has no English definition.
As a noun year
is the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference).year
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* (obsolete) * (obsolete)Noun
(wikipedia year) (en noun)The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.}}