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sidereal

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8 lettersPronunciation /saɪˈdɪə.ɹi.əl/Part of speech adjectiveSorted adeeilrsStarts with SEnds with L0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. (of divisions of time) determined by daily motion of the stars

Word origin

From Latin sīdereus + -al (cf. Latin sīderālis), from sīdus (“star, constellation”), of unknown ultimate origin, likely a substrate language such as Pre-Greek.

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  • The field of sidereal astronomy, therefore, was virtually untrodden when, shortly after the beginning of his telescopic work, Herschel began his first review of the heavens.
  • Then, from a sufficient number of observations of synodic periods to give their mean, we obtain the sidereal period, or period with reference to the stars.

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