mean solar day

Questions about mean solar day

What does mean solar day mean?

mean solar day means "time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis".

What is another word for mean solar day?

Close synonyms include day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period, 24-hour interval, solar day. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mean solar day a common word?

mean solar day is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.