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Autumn, also known as fall, [1] is one of the four temperate seasons on Earth. Outside the tropics, autumn marks the transition from summer to winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere). Autumn is the season when the duration of daylight becomes noticeably
The definition of seasons is also cultural. In India, from ancient times to the present day, ... Post-monsoon or autumn season, lasting from October to November. In ...
Autumn: 7th to 9th month; Winter: 10th to 12th month; Quadrimester. The calendar year can also be divided into quadrimesters (from French quadrimestre), [5] lasting ...
Autumn, an 1897 Art Nouveau illustration by Alfons Mucha.. Autumn is a feminine given name derived from the Latin word autumnus, meaning "fall" or "autumn". [1]The name has been in use in the United States since at least the 1870s, according to census records. [2]
Autumn leaf color is a phenomenon that affects the normally green leaves of many deciduous trees and shrubs by which they take on, during a few weeks in the autumn season, various shades of yellow, orange, red, purple, and brown. [1]
In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous (/ d ɪ ˈ s ɪ dʒ u. ə s /) [1] [2] means "falling off at maturity" [3] and "tending to fall off", [4] in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.
Illumination of Earth by the Sun on the day of an equinox. The March equinox [7] [8] or northward equinox [9] is the equinox on the Earth when the subsolar point appears to leave the Southern Hemisphere and cross the celestial equator, heading northward as seen from Earth.
The equinox Sun sets due west at the moment of both the spring and autumn equinoxes. As viewed from the Northern Hemisphere, the Sun sets to the northwest (or not at all) in the spring and summer, and to the southwest in the autumn and winter; these seasons are reversed for the Southern Hemisphere.