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Definition of solar day
: the interval between transits of the apparent or mean sun across the meridian at any place
Examples of solar day in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web One solar day—a full day-night cycle—takes 176 Earth days.
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Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, "Small Yet Mighty Mercury Still Holds Many Mysteries," 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.
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Barry Lopez, Harper's magazine, "Polar Light," 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.
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Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, "Why You Should Have Heart Surgery in the Afternoon," 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.
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Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, "Baltimore's earliest sunrise of the year comes Thursday," 13 June 2018
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