quiet sun

noun

, Astronomy.

1. the sun at the minimum of solar activity, occurring every 11 years.
2. the unchanging background of solar phenomena.

Example Sentences

The Christian and the priest had spoken; the low voice in its intensity had seemed to ring through the quiet sun-flooded room.

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The quiet sun blazed down through the clear windless air and made a furnace of our hole in the sand.

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It was a quiet sun-lit place, where cottonwood trees and jack-pines lined the sloping hills.

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Clear and distinct lay the blue sky upon the quiet sun-lit prairie.

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But for the most part the winds are laid, and the sole change is from quiet sun to quiet shower.

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