Assertion: vernal equinox | /r/Synonym | first point of aries
Facets:
value: commonly
type: DEGREE
value: sometimes
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The vernal equinox is also known as the first point of Aries because when first devised some 2,000 years ago this point occurred at the beginning of Aries in the zodiac.
text: Nowadays the vernal equinox has moved in the constellation Pisces, but sometimes it is still called the first point of Aries.
text: For that reason, the spring equinox is also called “the first point of Aries.
text: The vernal equinox is also known as the first point of Aries because when first devised some 2,000 years ago this point occurred at the beginning of Aries in the zodiac.
text: The vernal equinox is also known as the first point of Aries because when first devised some 2,000 years ago this point occurred at the beginning of Aries in the zodiac.
text: The vernal equinox is also known as the first point of Aries because when first devised some 2,000 years ago this point occurred at the beginning of Aries in the zodiac.
text: The zodiac was then taken to start from here, and so the vernal equinox was commonly known as the first point of Aries.