Sidereal astronomy is focused on the study of stars.
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Sidereal
//saɪˈdɪɚ.i.əl//
Synonyms for "sidereal" (52 found)
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6 entriesTranslations
34 translations across 18 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- астрономически adj (relating to a measurement of time relative to the position of the stars)
- зве́зден adj (of or relating to the stars)
Catalan
2 entries- sideral adj (of or relating to the stars)
- sideral adj (relating to a measurement of time relative to the position of the stars)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 恆星的 /恒星的 adj (of or relating to the stars)
- 星的 adj (of or relating to the stars)
Czech
1 entries- siderický adj (relating to a measurement of time relative to the position of the stars)
Finnish
2 entries- sideerinen adj (relating to a measurement of time relative to the position of the stars)
- tähti adj (of or relating to the stars)
French
2 entries- sidéral adj (of or relating to the stars)
- sidéral adj (relating to a measurement of time relative to the position of the stars)
German
3 entries- Stern adj (of or relating to the stars)
- siderisch adj (of or relating to the stars)
- siderisch adj (relating to a measurement of time relative to the position of the stars)
Irish
2 entries- réaltach adj (of or relating to the stars)
- réaltach adj (relating to a measurement of time relative to the position of the stars)
Italian
2 entries- siderale adj (of or relating to the stars)
- siderale adj (relating to a measurement of time relative to the position of the stars)
Japanese
2 entries- 恒星の adj (of or relating to the stars)
- 星の adj (of or relating to the stars)
Korean
2 entries- 별의 adj (of or relating to the stars)
- 항성(恒星)의 adj (of or relating to the stars)
Lithuanian
1 entries- žvaigždinis adj (of or relating to the stars)
Polish
4 entries- gwiazdowy adj (of or relating to the stars)
- gwiazdowy adj (relating to a measurement of time relative to the position of the stars)
- gwiezdny adj (of or relating to the stars)
- syderyczny adj (of or relating to the stars)
Portuguese
2 entries- sideral adj (of or relating to the stars)
- sidéreo adj (of or relating to the stars)
Russian
1 entries- звёздный adj (of or relating to the stars)
Spanish
1 entries- sidéreo adj (of or relating to the stars)
Thai
2 entries- นิรายนะ adj (of or relating to the stars)
- นิรายนะ adj (relating to a measurement of time relative to the position of the stars)
Welsh
1 entries- serol adj (of or relating to the stars)
Sample sentences
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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?
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The field of sidereal astronomy, therefore, was virtually untrodden when, shortly after the beginning of his telescopic work, Herschel began his first review of the heavens.
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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.
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