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sideral

sideral is the dated form of sidereal.

Meaning of sidereal

Adjective

sidereal (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to the stars.
    • 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?1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Reminiscences”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 14
  2. Relating to a measurement of time relative to the position of the stars.
    • 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.1903, Percival Lowell, “Chapter I”, in The Solar System
  3. Relating to a measurement of time relative to the point of the vernal equinox.

Origin of sideral

Borrowed from Latin sīderālis.

Words formed from sideral

Questions about sideral

What is sideral the dated form of?
Sideral is the dated form of sidereal.

Words near sideral in the dictionary

  1. sidequel
  2. sidequels
  3. sidequest
  4. sidequests
  5. sider
  6. sideral
  7. sideral time
  8. sideramine
  9. sideramines
  10. sideraphthite
  11. siderastreid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sideral (page history and authors); sidereal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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