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SIDEREAL PERIOD

Specialty Definition: SIDEREAL PERIOD

DomainDefinition

Aerospace

1. The time taken by a planet or satellite to complete one revolution about its primary as seen from the primary and as referred to a fixed star.2. Specifically, the interval between two successive returns of an earth satellite in orbit to the same geocentric right ascension. (references)

Geography

The time elapsing between 2 consecutive intersections of the projection of a satellite onto a reference plane which passes trough the centre of mass of the primary body with a line in that plane extending from the centre of mass to infinity, the normal to the reference plane and the direction of the line both being fixed in relation to the stars. Source: European Union. (references)

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

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Crosswords: SIDEREAL PERIOD

Specialty definitions using "SIDEREAL PERIOD": orbital period. (references)

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Expressions: SIDEREAL PERIOD

Expressions using "SIDEREAL PERIOD": sidereal period of revolution sidereal period of rotation. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translation: SIDEREAL PERIOD

Language Translations for "SIDEREAL PERIOD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

stjerneperiode. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

sterreperiode. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sideerinen kiertoaika. (various references)

   

French

  

période sidérale. (various references)

   

German

  

Sternrotationsperiode eines 1 Satelliten (sidereal period of rotation), siderische Umdrehungszeit (sideral period of rotation, sidereal period of rotation), siderische Periode (sidereal period of revolution), mittlere Periode der Umlaufbahn (mean sidereal period of revolution). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αστρική περίοδος. (various references)

   

Italian

  

periodo siderale. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iderealsay eriodpay

   

Portuguese

  

período sideral. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

periodo sideral. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

siderisk rotationsperiod (sidereal period of rotation), siderisk omloppstid (sidereal period of revolution). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SIDEREAL PERIOD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-i-i-l-o-p-r-r-s"

-4 letters: espaliered, peddleries, repleaders, resoldered.

-5 letters: deplorers, despaired, despairer, desperado, despoiled, despoiler, disrepair, draperies, idealised, leporidae, orderlies, pedaliers, pedlaries, pedleries, periodids, polarised, presidial, reloaders, repealers, repleaded, repleader, soldiered, spiderier.

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

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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