sidereal period

noun

1. astronomy the period of revolution of a body about another with respect to one or more distant stars

Example Sentences

This is called the moon's sidereal period of revolution, because it is the time elapsed while she is traveling eastward from a given star around to coincidence with the same star again.

From Project Gutenberg

Its sidereal period: 656 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first half of the month of April can be called the most brilliant sidereal period of the year.

From Project Gutenberg

In this latitude, whose natural cosine is three-fourths, the velocity westward is over 700 miles per hour; but at its extreme limits north, the motion is much slower, and is repeated for two or three days in nearly the same latitude, for then it begins to return to the south; thus  oscillating in about one sidereal period of the moon.

From Project Gutenberg

And afterwards we will give a brief abstract from the record of the weather, for one sidereal period of the moon, in order to compare the theory with observation.

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