mean solar time

1. 1.

   (astronomy) time based on the motion of the mean sun (an imaginary sun moving uniformly along the celestial equator)

   Synonymsmean time

   Broadertime unit

   astronomy

Questions about mean solar time

What does mean solar time mean?

mean solar time means "(astronomy) time based on the motion of the mean sun (an imaginary sun moving uniformly along the celestial equator)".

What is another word for mean solar time?

Close synonyms include mean time. 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 time a common word?

mean solar time 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.