Definition of Mean solar day

1. Noun. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis. "There are 30,000 passengers per day"


Definition of Mean solar day

1. Noun. the average length of a solar day, used for practical timekeeping ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mean Solar Day

mean deviation
mean deviation from the mean
mean distance
mean distance between failure
mean electrical axis
mean foundation plane
mean free path
mean high water
mean higher high water
mean low water
mean lower low water
mean manifest vector
mean proportional
mean proportionals
mean sea level
mean solar day (current term)
mean solar time
mean spirited
mean sun
mean temperature
mean the world to
mean time
mean value
mean value theorem
mean vector
meander
meandered
meanderer
meanderers
meandering

Literary usage of Mean solar day

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"A mean solar day, according to Mr. Stone's theory, is something totally ... Practically, Mr. Stone's mean solar day is the time during which the mean ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... by which the sun's annual apparent motion is explained, that we need inquire into the exact relation between the mean solar day and the sidereal day. ..."

3. Navigation and Nautical Astronomy: The Practical Part, Containing Rules for by H. W. Jeans (1853)
"sidereal year = 365a 6h 9m lls-5 t The sidereal day, the apparent solar day, and the mean solar day. 18. The sidereal day is the interval between two ..."

4. A Treatise on Astronomy by Elias Loomis (1870)
"The length of the mean solar day is greater than that of the sidereal, because when the mean sun, in its diurnal motion, returns to a given meridian, ..."

5. The Standard Dictionary of Facts: History, Language, Literature, Biography edited by Henry Woldmar Ruoff (1909)
"Practically it is ,BJn!, of the mean solar day, but really it is a perfectly arbitrary unit, as the length of the mean solar day is not constant for any two ..."

6. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley (1859)
"... the perigee (bo- tween Christmas and new year's) at the same instant with the real sun. A day usually signifies a mean solar day. A sidereal day is 23h. ..."

7. Astronomy by Simon Newcomb, Edward Singleton Holden (1883)
"Hence a mean solar day will also bo longer than a sidereal day, for the same reason ... The exact relation is: and 1 sidereal day = 0-997 mean solar day, ..."

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