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Mean Solar Day

Definition: Mean Solar Day

Mean Solar Day

Noun

1. Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; "two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Specialty Definitions: Mean Solar Day

DomainDefinitions

Aerospace

The duration of one rotation of the earth on its axis, with respect to the mean sun.The length of the mean solar days is 24 hours of mean solar time or 24 hours 3 minutes 56.555 seconds of mean sidereal time. A mean solar day beginning at midnight is called a civil day; and one beginning at noon, 12 hours later, is called an astronomical day. See calendar day. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Mean Solar Day

Synonyms: day (n), solar day (n), twenty-four hours (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Mean Solar Day

English words defined with "mean solar day": Civil daydaysidereal day. (references)
Specialty definitions using "mean solar day": apparent solar daycuvettadoppio fondomean solar second. (references)

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Modern Translations: Mean Solar Day

Language Translations for "mean solar day"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

middel soldag (mean day, mid-day(USA)). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

middelbare zonnedag (mean day, mid-day(USA)), middelbare dag (mean day, mid-day(USA)). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

keskiaurinkovuorokausi (mean day, mid-day(USA)). (various references)

   

French

  

jour solaire moyen (mean day), jour moyen (mean day). (various references)

   

German

  

mittlerer Tag (mean day, mid-day(USA)), mittlerer Sonnentag (mean day, mid-day(USA)). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

平均太陽日 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

へいき"たいようじつ. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eanmay olarsay ayday

   

Portuguese

  

meio dia solar (mean day, mid-day(USA)). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

día solar medio (mean day, mid-day(USA)), día medio (mean day, mid-day(USA)). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

medelsoldygn (mean day, mid-day(USA)). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Mean Solar Day

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-e-l-m-n-o-r-s-y"

-2 letters: salamander.

-3 letters: ealdorman, manslayer, salaryman, salarymen.

-4 letters: adenomas, adrenals, alamedas, alamodes, alderman, almoners, analysed, analyser, armloads, dalesman, daymares, earldoms, ladrones, lamasery, lanyards, leadsman, madronas, madrones, mandalas, mandolas, mandrels, modernly, monardas, ramosely, randomly, ransomed, salaamed, sayonara, seamanly, solander, syndrome.

-5 letters: adenoma, adenyls, adrenal, alameda, alamode, alarmed, almners, almonds, almoner, almonry, already, amylase, amylose, anadems, analyse.

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Alternative Orthography: Mean Solar Day


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 65 61 6E      53 6F 6C 61 72      44 61 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01100101 01100001 01101110 00100000 01010011 01101111 01101100 01100001 01110010 00100000 01000100 01100001 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#101 &#97 &#110 &#32 &#83 &#111 &#108 &#97 &#114 &#32 &#68 &#97 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0065 0061 006E      0053 006F 006C 0061 0072      0044 0061 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47716780253817867842386791

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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