Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

Mean Sun

Definition: Mean Sun

Mean Sun

Noun

1. A theoretical sun that moves along the celestial equator at a constant speed and completes its annual course in the same amount of time the real sun takes at variable speeds.

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

Specialty Definitions: Mean Sun

Domain	Definitions
Aerospace	A fictitious sun conceived to move eastward along the celestial equator at a rate that provides a uniform measure of time equal to the average apparent time; the reference for reckoning mean time, zone time, etc. See dynamical mean sun. (references)
Geography	A fictitious object used for calculating time because the real sun's apparent orbit around the earth does not fall on the celestial equator and the sun does not move at a constant speed in its apparent orbit. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: Mean Sun

English words defined with "mean sun": Astronomical Unit, Au ♦ Equinoctial time ♦ Kepler's laws ♦ Lag of the tide ♦ mean solar time, mean time ♦ Tropic year. (references)

Specialty definitions using "mean sun": apparent solar day, apparent sun ♦ dynamical mean sun ♦ ephemeris second ♦ Greenwich civil time, Greenwich mean-time ♦ heat balance ♦ local mean time ♦ MEAN EARTH-SUN DISTANCE ♦ story ♦ true sun. (references)

Modern Translations: Mean Sun

Language		Translations for "mean sun"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		middelsol. (various references)

Greek		μέσος ήλιος. (various references)

Pig Latin		eanmay unsay

Portuguese		tempo médio solar. (various references)

Spanish		tiempo solar medio. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Mean Sun

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-m-n-n-s-u"
	-1 letter: unmans, unseam.
	-2 letters: amens, amuse, manes, manse, manus, means, mensa, menus, names, nemas, neums, numen, senna, sunna, unman, usnea.
	-3 letters: amen, amus, anes, anus, emus, maes, mane, mans, maun, mean, menu, mesa, muns, muse, name, nans, nema, neum, nuns, same, sane, seam, sunn.
	-4 letters: amu, ane, eau, ems, emu, ens, mae, man, mas, men.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-m-n-n-s-u"
	+1 letter: mundanes.
	+2 letters: humanness, unseaming.
	+3 letters: amanuenses, amanuensis, annulments, fundaments, humaneness, husbandmen, luminances, manfulness, mannequins, nurseryman, pneumonias, semiannual, unhandsome, unmanliest.
	+4 letters: amusingness, attunements, businessman, humannesses, inhumanness, innumerates, mavourneens, mensuration, mountebanks, mundaneness, mundanities, numerations, tournaments, unanimities, unmanliness, unmasculine.
	+5 letters: adjournments, antependiums, anticonsumer, countermands, edutainments, encumbrances, entomofaunas, enumerations, fundamentals, humanenesses, illuminances, inconsumable, inhumanities, innumeracies, instrumental, languishment, manfulnesses, menstruating, menstruation, mensurations, mononuclears, mountaineers, mountainside, nonarguments, pandemoniums, quadrenniums, semiannually, transhumance, unhandsomely.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: Mean Sun

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

4D 65 61 6E 53 75 6E

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

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

01001101 01100101 01100001 01101110 00100000 01010011 01110101 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#101 &#97 &#110 &#32 &#83 &#117 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0065 0061 006E 0053 0075 006E

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

477167802538780

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.