dec

1. The last (12th) month of the year (synset 115238570)
   is a type of: gregorian calendar month - a month in the Gregorian calendar
   has:

   • december 31, new year's eve - the last day of the year
   • christmas, christmas day, dec 25, xmas - a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
   • christmas, christmastide, christmastime, noel, yule, yuletide - period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6
   • mid-december - the middle part of December
   is a part of: gregorian calendar, new style calendar - the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752
   same as: december
2. (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator;
   Expressed in degrees;
   Used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere (synset 108650469)
   referred to in: astronomy, uranology - the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole
   is a type of: angular distance - the angular separation between two objects as perceived by an observer
   same as: celestial latitude, declination

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