Examples of solar day in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The first division of the day’s 24 hours (known in Latin as partes minutae primae) gave them the length of the minute, which was one-1,440th of an average solar day. — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022 One solar day—a full day-night cycle—takes 176 Earth days. — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2019 It’s eleven-thirty at night according to my watch, but this far south the hour of the solar day is of no help in trying to understand the situation we’re in here, or our work rhythms. — Barry Lopez, Harper's magazine, 10 Jan. 2019 In the 1980s and 1990s, the three scientists who received the award figured out how genetic time counters in cells aligned biological function to the 24-hour solar day. — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2018 The length of a solar day, measured by the time between the sun’s passage of any particular point in the sky, is rarely 24 hours precisely. — Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 13 June 2018

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