sidereal
IPA: sˈɪdˈɪriʌɫ
adjective
- Of or relating to the stars.
- (astronomy) Relating to a measurement of time relative to the position of the stars.
- (astronomy) Relating to a measurement of time relative to the point of the vernal equinox.
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Examples of "sidereal" in Sentences
- The whole sidereal system coruscated, reeled and fell in flame.
- It's called sidereal or Vedic astrology, and it's popular in India.
- The time which the earth occupies in making a complete rotation around this axis is called a sidereal day.
- As in connection with 1: 7 the idea of a kind of sidereal ocean had to be rejected as a purely fanciful notion of commentators, so here.
- In other words, everybody has two signs - one linked to the seasons (Western tradition) and the other more closely linked to the constellations (sidereal).
- Kepler, Galileo, and Newton in the seventeenth century, were the means of effecting a rapid advance in the science of astronomy; but that branch of it known as sidereal astronomy was not then in existence.
- This is the difference between what we call the sidereal day (the time that it takes to make one complete rotation) and the synodic day (the time that it takes to go from the Sun highest in the sky until the Sun is again at its highest in the sky).
- While I agree that talking about the misogyny is important, it's kind of sidereal to the point I was trying to make, which was that my childhood and teen years as a trans person shaped my socialization and upbringing in ways that aren't acknowledged.
- Indeed, little was known of those orbs until within the past hundred years, when the exploration of the heavens by the aid of greatly increased telescopic power, was the means of creating a new branch of astronomical science, called sidereal astronomy.
- What they are probably thinking is that the imaginary line mentioned above from the earth to the sun sweeps out a full circle in one year; this is called a sidereal year: the time it takes for the sun to appear in the same place against the backdrop of the fixed stars.
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