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Solar day   /sˈoʊlər deɪ/   Listen
Solar day

noun
1.
Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis.  Synonyms: 24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours.  "They put on two performances every day" , "There are 30,000 passengers per day"



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"Solar day" Quotes from Famous Books



... the ancient astronomy all the germs of the worship of the Hebrews, who identify the labours of Hercules with those of the Jewish heroes, and who find the life, death and resurrection of the Messiah in the history of the solar day. You, at least, allow the existence of a peculiar religious instinct, or, as you are pleased to call it, superstition, belonging to the human mind, and I have hopes that upon this foundation you will ultimately build up a system of faith not unworthy a philosopher and a ...
— Consolations in Travel - or, the Last Days of a Philosopher • Humphrey Davy

... great attention and interest,—hence the month, and the practice adopted by many nations of reckoning time by the motions of the moon, as well as the still more general practice of combining lunar with solar periods. The solar day, the solar year, and the lunar month, or lunation, may therefore be called the natural divisions of time. All others, as the hour, the week, and the civil month, though of the most ancient and general use, ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 - "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" • Various



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