SOLAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does solar mean? 

• SOLAR (adjective)
  The adjective SOLAR has 1 sense:

1. relating to or derived from the sun or utilizing the energies of the sun

  Familiarity information: SOLAR used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLAR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or derived from the sun or utilizing the energies of the sun

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

solar energy

Pertainym:

Sun (the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system)

 Context examples 

In fact, you will start to see this in action at the coming solar eclipse, December 25 (in the western hemisphere) or December 26 (throughout the rest of the world).

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

"It is going extremely fast and on such a trajectory that we can say with confidence that this object is on its way out of the solar system and not coming back."

(Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System, NASA)

However, using these materials to convert sunlight into electricity to make solar cells is far more complex.

(Plastic crystals hold key to record-breaking energy transport, Universities of Cambridge)

Amount of solar radiation received on a given body or in a given area.

(Insolation, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

Additionally, brown dwarfs will help scientists study exoplanets, planets outside our solar system, as the atmosphere of cool brown dwarfs is similar to what astronomers expect to find at many exoplanets.

(Powerful Auroras Found at Brown Dwarf, NASA)

They show that the lander survived its Dec. 25, 2003, touchdown enough to at least partially deploy its solar arrays.

('Lost' 2003 Mars Lander Found by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, NASA)

Observations will help scientists learn more about the origin and evolution of our solar system and the role comets may have played in seeding Earth with water, and perhaps even life.

(Rosetta closing in on comet, NASA)

Unlike every other planet in the solar system, Uranus is tipped over almost onto its side.

(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)

That hot solar plasma rises in the bright centers of “cells,” cools, then sinks below the surface in dark lanes in a process known as convection.

(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)

The percentage of solar radiation that is reflected relative to the total incoming radiation.

(Albedo, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)