Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
{Cycle of indiction}, a period of 15 years, employed in Roman
and ecclesiastical chronology, not founded on any
astronomical period, but having reference to certain
judicial acts which took place at stated epochs under the
Greek emperors.
{Cycle of the moon}, or {Metonic cycle}, a period of 19
years, after the lapse of which the new and full moon
returns to the same day of the year; -- so called from
Meton, who first proposed it.
{Cycle of the sun}, {Solar cycle}, a period of 28 years, at
the end of which time the days of the month return to the
same days of the week. The dominical or Sunday letter
follows the same order; hence the solar cycle is also
called the {cycle of the Sunday letter}. In the Gregorian
calendar the solar cycle is in general interrupted at the
end of the century.