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How do you use Sidereal in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like civil, plus the exact meaning.

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Sidereal in a sentence

Sidereal meaning

  1. Of or relating to the stars.
  2. Relating to a measurement of time relative to the position of the stars.
  3. Relating to a measurement of time relative to the point of the vernal equinox.

Synonyms of Sidereal

natural object civil

Related words

Other words often associated with Sidereal or its synonyms:

national whole civilian civic artifact uncivil civilised subject unit polite civilized

Using Sidereal

  • The main meaning on this page is: Of or relating to the stars. | Relating to a measurement of time relative to the position of the stars. | Relating to a measurement of time relative to the point of the vernal equinox.
  • Useful related words include: natural object, civil.
  • In the example corpus, sidereal often appears in combinations such as: sidereal day, sidereal time, the sidereal.

Context around Sidereal

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 8 start, 9 middle, 3 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

greenwich 1× longitude 1× venusian 1× circle 1× ideal 1×

Often after:

day 9× month 2× rotation 2× year 2× hour 1× clock 1×

Sentence patterns with Sidereal

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

than a sidereal month because 2× a sidereal day the 1× a sidereal rotation is 1× a venusian sidereal day thus 1× an ideal sidereal clock deviates 1× and the sidereal year the 1× as its sidereal day 1× by one sidereal hour note 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a mean solar 1× a semi synchronous 1× a sidereal day 1× a sidereal rotation 1× a successful candidate 1× a synodic month 1×

Common sentence endings:

7 earth days 2× 365 25 days 1× a civil clock 1× a sidereal day 1× a slight discrepancy 1× a solar day 1×

Words around Sidereal

Just before it in the word index:

sider 10 sidequests 8 sidequest 4 sidepiece 2 sideout 4 sidenotes 2

Just after it in the word index:

sidereus 3 sideritis 2 siderits 6 siderno 5 siders 21 sides 6.918

Similar in corpus frequency:

abdur 43 abrasion 43 abscess 43 absconded 43 acclimated 43 acf 43

Corpus analysis for Sidereal

  • In this selection, "sidereal" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, greenwich, longitude, venusian, day, month and rotation stand out and add context to how "sidereal" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include than a sidereal month because and a sidereal day the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "sidereal" sits close to words such as abdur, abrasion and abscess, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with sidereal

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Glossary, s.v. hour angle, hour circle, sidereal time. (9 words)

A sidereal day (the period of rotation) lasts about 58.7 Earth days. (13 words)

A mean solar day is, therefore, nearly 4 minutes longer than a sidereal day. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

He also compared the lengths of the tropical year (the time it takes the Sun to return to an equinox) and the sidereal year (the time it takes the Sun to return to a fixed star), and found a slight discrepancy. (41 words)

Mercury's sidereal day is about two-thirds of its orbital period, so by the prograde formula its solar day lasts for two revolutions around the sun— three times as long as its sidereal day. (35 words)

And Sideræl — pronounced 'sigh-deer-ee-el' — is 'a more elven' spelling of sidereal, 'the true time of the universe, star time, deep space time, not our relative earth time,' she explained. (32 words)

Example sentences (20)

Both solar time and sidereal time make use of the regularity of Earth's rotation about its polar axis, solar time following the sun while sidereal time roughly follows the stars.

Local sidereal time at any locality differs from the Greenwich sidereal time value of the same moment, by an amount that is proportional to the longitude of the locality.

Mercury's sidereal day is about two-thirds of its orbital period, so by the prograde formula its solar day lasts for two revolutions around the sun— three times as long as its sidereal day.

When one moves eastward 15° in longitude, sidereal time is larger by one sidereal hour (note that it wraps around at 24 hours).

And Sideræl — pronounced 'sigh-deer-ee-el' — is 'a more elven' spelling of sidereal, 'the true time of the universe, star time, deep space time, not our relative earth time,' she explained.

A mean solar day is, therefore, nearly 4 minutes longer than a sidereal day.

An anomalistic month is longer than a sidereal month because the perigee moves in the same direction as the Moon is orbiting the Earth, one revolution in nine years.

A semi-synchronous orbit has an orbital period of ½ sidereal day, i.e., 11 h 58 min.

Advertentie

A sidereal day (the period of rotation) lasts about 58.7 Earth days.

A sidereal rotation is the time it takes the Earth to make one revolution with respect to the stars, approximately 23 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds.

A successful candidate signal would first transit the east beam, and then the west beam and do so with a speed consistent with Earth 's sidereal rotation rate.

A synodic month is longer than a sidereal month because the Earth-Moon system is orbiting the Sun in the same direction as the Moon is orbiting the Earth.

Because its rotation is so slow, Venus is very close to spherical. citation A Venusian sidereal day thus lasts longer than a Venusian year (243 versus 224.7 Earth days).

Due to the orbit of the earth around the sun a sidereal day is about 4 minutes (1/366th) less than a solar day.

Earth makes one rotation around its axis in a sidereal day; during that time it moves a short distance (about 1°) along its orbit around the sun.

Earth's sidereal day also differs from its rotation period relative to the background stars by the amount of precession in right ascension during one day (8.4 ms).

Glossary, s.v. hour angle, hour circle, sidereal time.

He also compared the lengths of the tropical year (the time it takes the Sun to return to an equinox) and the sidereal year (the time it takes the Sun to return to a fixed star), and found a slight discrepancy.

However, due to variations in the rotation rate of Earth, the rate of an ideal sidereal clock deviates from any simple multiple of a civil clock.

It is currently less than the sidereal year and its duration is very close to the mean Julian year of 365.25 days.

Advertentie

Common combinations with sidereal

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "sidereal" in a sentence?
An example: "Both solar time and sidereal time make use of the regularity of Earth's rotation about its polar axis, solar time following the sun while sidereal time roughly follows the stars." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "sidereal" from authentic English texts.
What does "sidereal" mean?
Sidereal means: Of or relating to the stars.
What are synonyms of "sidereal"?
Common synonyms of "sidereal" include: natural object, civil.
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