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mean solar time

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mean solar time: see solar time solar time, time defined by the position of the sun. The solar day is the time it takes for the sun to return to the same meridian in the sky. Local solar time is measured by a sundial .
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mean time, mean solar time
the time, at a particular place, measured in terms of the passage of the mean sun; the timescale is not precisely constant

mean solar time [′mēn ′sō·lər ′tīm]
(astronomy)
Time that has the mean solar second as its unit, and is based on the mean sun's motion.


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