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mean solar time

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noun

Astronomy.
  1. time measured by the hour angle of the mean sun.


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Within each zone, all places keep the same standard time, with the local mean solar time of a standard line of longitude running more or less through the middle of each zone.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

Apparent solar time is based on the position of the Sun in the sky, and mean solar time is based on the average value of a solar day during the year.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

How is the situation improved by introducing mean solar time and standard time?

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

Every degree of longitude around the globe would correspond to a four-minute time difference away from mean solar time on that verdant hilltop just east of London.

From Slate • Jun. 10, 2015

I. When the mean solar time is known.

From A Text-Book of Astronomy by Comstock, George C.