What does sidereal day mean?

sidereal day means "the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day".

What is another word for sidereal day?

Close synonyms include 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 sidereal day a common word?

sidereal 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.

sidereal day — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day
Synonymsday
Broadertime unit sidereal time

Questions about sidereal day

What does sidereal day mean?: sidereal day means "the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day".
What is another word for sidereal day?: Close synonyms include 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 sidereal day a common word?

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