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Definition of Mean solar time
1. Noun. (astronomy) time based on the motion of the mean sun (an imaginary sun moving uniformly along the celestial equator).
Category relationships: Astronomy, Uranology
Generic synonyms: Time Unit, Unit Of Time
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mean Solar Time
Literary usage of Mean solar time
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"In order that this conversion of sidereal into mean solar time, however, ...
Thus the error of mean solar time as deduced from sidereal time by means of ..."
2. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"The sum of these two, 1m 32s.373, is the correction to be subtracted from the
given sidereal interval, giving ()h 22m 188.6 of mean solar time. ..."
3. Navigation and Nautical Astronomy: The Practical Part, Containing Rules for by H. W. Jeans (1853)
"Sidereal time, apparent solar time, and mean solar time. 23. ... mean solar time
is the angle at the pole between the celestial meridian, and a circle of ..."
4. A Treatise on Astronomy by Elias Loomis (1870)
"Hence 24 hours of mean solar time are equivalent to 24b. ... The difference
between apparent solar time and mean solar time, is called the equation of time. ..."
5. An Introduction to Practical Astronomy: With a Collection of Astronomical Tables by Elias Loomis (1865)
"To convert sidereal time into mean solar time. If from the proposed sidereal time
we subtract the sidereal time at the preceding mean noon, we shall obtain ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Day after day the sun would come to the meridian at a later and later hour of
mean solar time, until towards the end of March, when, the sun's rate having ..."
7. An Introduction to Astronomy by Forest Ray Moulton (1916)
"The difference in length between the longest and the shortest day in the year
is, therefore, about 51 seconds of mean solar time. While this difference for ..."
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