solar
IPA: sˈoʊɫɝ
noun
- solar energy
- (obsolete) A loft or upper chamber forming the private accommodation of the head of the household in a medieval hall; a garret room.
adjective
- Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun
- (astrology, obsolete) Born under the predominant influence of the sun.
- Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.
- Produced by the action of the sun, or peculiarly affected by its influence.
- Pertaining to the Sun (the star Sol).
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Examples of "solar" in Sentences
- Right now, we're in the midst of what we call a solar maximum.
- Politics solarpvevents #solar: Politics may make future of solar energy
- Fig 3/82 A variation of solar chimney with solar air ramp [2] 3.1.5.3 Passive cooling means
- The term solar energy often refers to processes that use this energy to generate heat or electricity for human use.
- The term solar power is used to describe energy gathered from the Sun's rays and converted into either heat or electricity.
- The term solar power describes almost any process that harnesses energy from the sun and then works by transforming this power into electricity, for example home solar power systems.
- Last week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a thousand-page report on the future of renewable energy, which it defined as solar, hydro, wind, tidal, wave, geothermal and biomass.
- His aim was to make still more exact our knowledge of the motions of the bodies constituting what we call the solar system, and his labors toward this end, begun more than thirty years ago, he continued almost until the day of his death.
- If you have hundreds of years of warning, you could spread chalk or charcoal over the surface that changes the way it reflects light and its velocity, or you could send what they call a solar sail -- a big sheet of Mylar-like plastic -- and sort of shrink-wrap it, and the sunlight over centuries would push it out of the way.
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