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Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun; as, the solar system; solar light; solar rays; solar influence. See Solar system, below.

A myth which essentially consists of allegory based upon ideas as to the sun's course, motion, influence, or the like.

The parallax of the sun, that is, the angle subtended at the sun by the semidiameter of the earth. It is 8."80, and is the fundamental datum.

Any one of several species of handsome marine spiral shells of the genus Solarium and allied genera. The shell is conical, and usually has a large, deep umbilicus exposing the upper whorls. Called also perspective shell.

Injury of a photographic picture caused by exposing it for too long a time to the sun's light in the camera; burning; excessive insolation.

To injure by too long exposure to the light of the sun in the camera; to burn.

Solar. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180º distant from the sun.

g from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon. Lunisolar precession (Astron.), that portion of the annual precession of the equinoxes which depends on the joint action of the sun and moon. -- Lunisolar year, a period of time, at the end of which, in the Julian calendar, the new a…

Being under the sun; hence, terrestrial; earthly; mundane. [R.]

Above the sun. Emerson.

ich they daily come to the meridian of any place about three minutes fifty-six seconds of solar time earlier than on the day preceding. -- Acceleration of the planets, the increasing velocity of their motion, in proceeding from the apogee to the perigee of their orbits.

The property of radiant energy (found chiefly in solar or electric light) by which chemical changes are produced, as in photography.

Pertaining to the measurement of the intensity of the solar rays, either (a) heating, or (b) actinic.

The measurement of the force of solar radiation. Maury.

nter or ultimate end; -- applied to theories of the universe or of any part of it, as the solar system. Draper.

One of the astreids. See Solar.

Center sun (Astron.), a name given to a hypothetical body about which Mädler supposed the solar system together with all the stars in the Milky Way, to be revolving. A point near Alcyone in the Pleiades was supposed to possess characteristics of the position of such a body.

A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun in its perihelion, and receding to a very great distance from it at its aphelion. A comet commonly consists of three parts: the nucleus, the envelope, or coma, and the tail; but one or more of these parts is frequen…

days of the year over fifty-two complete weeks; -- so called because they concur with the solar cycle, the course of which they follow.