astronomical day
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A diurnal motion exactly fills an astronomical day or the time of one rotation of a planet on its axis, while a daily motion is much less definite.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin
You remember that we have learned that astronomical time is reckoned from noon of one day to noon of the next and hence the astronomical day corresponds to the 24 hours of a ship's run.
From Lectures in Navigation by Draper, Ernest Gallaudet
The astronomical day is reckoned from noon to noon, continuously through the twenty-four hours, like the other days.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
The civil day always commences at the midnight preceding this astronomical day.
A vigorous effort was made during the last fifteen years of the 19th century to bring the two uses into harmony by beginning the astronomical day at midnight.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
