solar
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
solar1 /ˈsəʊlə/
▶adjective relating to or determined by the sun or its rays.
– origin ME: from L. solaris, from sol ‘sun’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
solar2 /ˈsɒlə, ˈsəʊlə/
▶noun Brit. an upper chamber in a medieval house.
– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. soler, from L. solarium ‘gallery, terrace’.
'solar' also found in these Oxford entries:
apparent time
- astronomical year
- Copernican system
- cosmogony
- earth
- ecliptic
- epact
- equation
- equinoctial year
- exoplanet
- extrasolar
- galaxy
- Greenwich Mean Time
- heliocentric
- heliosphere
- insolation
- intercalary
- Jupiter
- leap second
- lunisolar
- major planet
- Mars
- mean solar time
- mean sun
- mean time
- Mercury
- meteoroid
- Milky Way
- natural year
- Neptune
- orrery
- paddle
- Pluto
- retrograde
- rim
- saros
- Saturn
- sidereal day
- sidereal year
- solar battery
- solar constant
- solar day
- solar eclipse
- solar energy
- solar flare
- solar panel
- solar plexus
- solar power
