How to pronounce“sidereal”in English
IPA/saɪˈdɪɚ.i.əl/
Syllablessi·de·real
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Definitions of “sidereal”
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adjective
Of or relating to the stars.
“These fringes of lamplight, struggling up through smoke and thousandfold exhalation, some fathoms into the ancient reign of Night, what thinks Boötes of them, as he leads his Hunting-Dogs over the Zenith in their leash of sidereal fire?”
adjective
Relating to a measurement of time relative to the position of the stars.
“Then, from a sufficient number of observations of synodic periods to give their mean, we obtain the sidereal period, or period with reference to the stars.”