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SIDEREAL HOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sidereal hour mean? 

SIDEREAL HOUR (noun)
  The noun SIDEREAL HOUR has 1 sense:

1. 1/24 of a sidereal dayplay

  Familiarity information: SIDEREAL HOUR used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SIDEREAL HOUR (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

1/24 of a sidereal day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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

sidereal time (measured by the diurnal motion of stars)

60 minutes; hour; hr (a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day)


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