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mean solar day

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Definition of mean solar day

: the interval between successive transits of a given meridian by the mean sun

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 In the 19th century, scientific institutions worked to define the second in astronomical terms, and in the 1940s an international agreement defined the second as 1⁄86,400 of a mean solar day. — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, "The Centuries-Long Quest to Measure One Second," 24 Mar. 2017

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1816, in the meaning defined above

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