http://wordie.org/words/sidereal Comments for the word 'Sidereal' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/sidereal#comments "<a href="/words/Sidereal">Sidereal</a>, or <a href="/words/siderial">siderial</a>, something relating to the stars; as, Sidereal Year; Day, &c. being those marked out by the stars.<br /><br />"Sidereal Day, is the time in which any star appears to revolve from the <a href="/words/meridian">meridian</a> to the <a href="/words/meridian">meridian</a> again, which is 23 hours 56' 4" 6"' of mean solar time, there being 366 sidereal days in a year...."<br />—<i>Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine</i> (1816), 472 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:19:52 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/sidereal#comments http://wordie.org/words/sidereal#comments Truly one of my favourite words - for the spelling/pronunciation divide as much as the meaning.<br /> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:38:19 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/sidereal#comments