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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