mean noon

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• Noon

  ·noun Hence, the highest point; culmination. II. Noon ·vi To take rest and refreshment at noon. II...

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• noon

  Mid-day. ...

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• Mean

  ·noun Meantime; meanwhile. II. Mean ·noun A mediator; a go-between. III. Mean ·vi To have a purpos...

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• mean

  for means. Many American writers, following the Scottish models, make use of mean instead of means. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• mean

  As a general term implies the medium, but a mean of bad observations can never make a good one. ...

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• Noon-flower

  ·noun The goat's beard, whose flowers close at midday. ...

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• noon-flower

  n. a rare name for the Mesembryanthemum. See Pig-face. 1891. `The Argus,' Dec. 19, p. 4, col. 2: ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• noon-scape

  the time when labourers rest after dinner. Lane. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• apparent noon

  The instant that the sun's centre is on the meridian of a place. ...

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• Mean-spirited

  ·adj Of a mean spirit; base; groveling. ...

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• mean anomaly

  See anomaly. ...

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• mean distance

  The average distance of a planet from the sun; it is equal to half the longer axis of the ellipse, a...

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• mean equinox

  The position of the equinox independent of the effects of nutation. ...

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• mean motion

  The rate at which a body moving in an elliptic orbit would proceed at an equal velocity throughout. ...

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• mean obliquity

  The obliquity of the ecliptic, unaffected with nutation. ...

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• mean sun

  See time, mean. ...

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• mean time

  See time, mean. ...

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• time, mean

  , or mean solar time. That shown by a clock or watch when compensated for the unequal progress of ...

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• Sleep-at-noon

  ·noun A plant (Tragopogon pratensis) which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard. ...

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• Talfourd, Sir Thomas Noon

  (1795-1854) Poet and biographer, s. of a brewer at Reading, where he was b., and which he represent...

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• mean place of a star

  Its position at a given time, independent of aberration and nutation. ...

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