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sidereal day

noun as in sidereal time

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Note: For simplicity’s sake, these are all sidereal days, and “day” refers to an Earth day.

This figure is known as the "sidereal day" or "stellar day".

From BBC

A diurnal variation of the results would appear as a peak in the lock-in spectrum at a period of the sidereal day, which is 86,164.1 s.

From Nature

A sidereal day is approximately 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.1 seconds.

From BBC

A deduction of the number of the years from the number of the sidereal days gave, as remainder, the number of civil days in the exeligmos.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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