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mean solar day::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | 24-hour interval, day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours |
| Type of | unit of time, time unit |
| Has types | eve, morrow, today, tomorrow, day of the month, date, yesterday |
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Also, the mean solar day is getting longer at a rate of about 1.5 ms per 100 tropical years.
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Both the stellar day and the sidereal day are shorter than the mean solar day by about 3 minutes56 seconds.
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The mean position appears to revolve around the Earth once every mean solar day, because of the Earth's rotation.
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One twenty-fourth of the mean solar day.
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Generally, it is longer than the mean solar day during two periods of the year and shorter during another two.
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The Earth's rotational speed is very slowly decreasing due to tidal deceleration, causing the mean solar day to increase in length.
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The average of the true solar day during the course of an entire year is the mean solar day, which contains 86,400 mean solar seconds.
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However, because the mean solar day is slightly longer than 86,400 SI seconds, occasionally the last minute of a UTC day is adjusted to have 61 seconds.
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The length of the interval between two such successive events may be allowed to vary slightly during the year, or it may be averaged into a mean solar day.
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