SIDEREAL YEAR

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time for the earth to make one complete revolution around the sun, relative to the fixed stars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("sidereal year" is a kind of...):

year (the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun)

sidereal time (measured by the diurnal motion of stars)

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