sidereal time
(Redirected from siderial time)
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- (astronomy) Time measured by the apparent diurnal motion of the vernal equinox; approximated by that based on the rotation of planet Earth relative to the seemingly fixed stars.
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time measured by apparent motion of vernal equinox
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- sidereal time on Wikipedia.Wikipedia