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/saɪdˈiəɹɪəl/
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ADJECTIVE
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of or relating to the stars or constellations
the sidereal system
sidereal bodies -
(of divisions of time) determined by daily motion of the stars
sidereal time
How To Use sidereal In A Sentence
- Sacrificio et Magia, it is because the presence of the virtue of the sun, which is the organ and promptuary of all terrestrial and sidereal light, doth more symbolize and agree with a white cock, as well in regard of that colour, as of his property and specifical quality, than with a lion. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
- Six young poets have also been shortlisted for the £5,000 Felix Dennis prize for the best first collection of poetry: Rachael Boast, for Sidereal; Judy Brown, for Loudness; Nancy Gaffield, for Tokaido Road; Ahren Warner for Confer; John Whale, for Waterloo Teeth; and Nerys Williams for Sound Archive. Forward shortlist includes Geoffrey Hill, Sean O'Brien and David Harsent
- In other words, an instant repressor of any subversive initiatives the asymmetry is not between the United States and Venezuela, in which case we would speak of a sidereal dissimilitude of military options, but rather between the people and the Government. 06/05/2005 - 06/12/2005
- This is the difference between what we call the sidereal day (the time that it takes to make one complete rotation) and the synodic day (the time that it takes to go from the Sun highest in the sky until the Sun is again at its highest in the sky). Astroprof's Page
- The time which the earth occupies in making a complete rotation around this axis is called a sidereal day. The Story of the Heavens
- The whole sidereal system coruscated, reeled and fell in flame. Chapter 11
- sidereal time
- For, as Proclus saith, Libro de Sacrificio et Magia, it is because the presence of the virtue of the sun, which is the organ and promptuary of all terrestrial and sidereal light, doth more symbolize and agree with a white cock, as well in regard of that colour, as of his property and specifical quality, than with a lion. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1
- She believes the mural depicts a celebration of the convergence of the sidereal and tropical zodiacs and the ingress of the vernal point into Pisces.
- The whole sidereal system coruscated, reeled and fell in flame. Chapter 11