Solar Day (Noun)
Meaning
Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; "two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day".
Classification
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations.
Examples
- The Earth takes approximately 24 hours to complete one solar day, which is the time it takes to rotate once on its axis.
- A solar day is the time it takes the Earth to rotate once on its axis, which is approximately 24 hours.
- The astronauts had to adjust their schedules to accommodate the longer solar day on Mars.
- The solar day is the standard unit of time used to measure the passage of time on Earth.
- The planet's extremely slow rotation period meant that a solar day lasted for several Earth weeks.