mean solar day

Noun

Meaning

time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

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Synonyms

day solar day twenty-four hours twenty-four hour period light bright daytime daylight sunlight sunshine sidereal day days brights mean solar time 24-hour interval
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Antonyms

twilight black eventide night dark shadow
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Hypernyms

time unit unit of time

Hyponyms

eve morrow date tomorrow yesterday today

Examples

two days later they left Source: Internet

they put on two performances every day Source: Internet

there are 30,000 passengers per day Source: Internet

A mean solar day is, therefore, nearly 4 minutes longer than a sidereal day. Source: Internet

A mean solar day (what we normally measure as a "day") is the average time between local solar noons ("average" since this varies slightly over the year). Source: Internet

However, for the past several centuries, the length of the mean solar day has been increasing by about 1.4–1.7 ms per century, depending on the averaging time. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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