solar day
Americannoun
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Astronomy. the time interval between two successive transits by the sun of the meridian directly opposite that of the observer; the 24-hour interval from one midnight to the following midnight.
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Law. the period of time from sunrise to sunset.
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Etymology
Origin of solar day
First recorded in 1755–65
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Year-round daylight saving, not standard, time would keep our internal clocks aligned with society, placing the middle of the solar day at 1 p.m., the middle of our workday.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2022
Yet in 2020 there were 28 separate occasions in which a solar day occurred from anywhere between 1.0516 milliseconds and 1.4602 milliseconds less than that period.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2021
Most people’s natural cycle is somewhat longer than the 24-hour solar day, which means that, left to our own devices, we would quickly get out of sync with the external world.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2017
Usually, we think of it as the rotation period of Earth with respect to the Sun, called the solar day.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
The Second is the time of one swing of a pendulum making 86,164.09 swings in a sidereal day, or 1/86,400 part of a mean solar day.
From The Story of Electricity by Munro, John
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