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Meanings of sidereal day in English

Portuguese
dia
Catalan
dia sideral

The time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day.

        dia
        Russian
        звёздная минута
        Catalan
        dia sideral

        Unit of time.

                Related terms
                звёздная минута
                Usage of sidereal day in English
                1
                This is the difference between sidereal day and synodic day.
                Wired
                2
                They'd signed up for a full sidereal day -two hundred fifty-fiveEarth days.
                The dog said bow-wow
                3
                Now there would be no night for a sidereal day, Duchess-night flowing seamlessly into Duke-day.
                The Reality Dysfunction
                4
                That interval, the sidereal day, lasts 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4 seconds.
                Death by black hole: and other cosmic quandaries
                5
                That is the sidereal day.
                Astronomy for Amateurs
                6
                I am concerned with the rotational rate of the Earth on its axis, so I need to use the sidereal day.
                Wired
                7
                In a vast, convulsive recession of the equinoxes, a billion sidereal days had reborn themselves, re-aligned the nebulae and island universes in their original perspectives.
                The Drowned World
                8
                Sidereal Day: 22.45 hours
                House of Steel