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SIDEREAL YEAR
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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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