| 单词 | fast of clock |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfast of (the) clock b. Of the sun or its motion in the sky: advancing beyond the position which is calculated for the mean sun, so that apparent solar time (as shown by a sundial) runs ahead of clock time. Formerly also †fast of (the) clock. Cf. slow adj. 18a. ΚΠ 1791 S. Stearns Amer. Oracle vi. 80 When the sun agrees with the clock that measures the time even, the rotation is performed exactly in 24 hours; but when he is too fast of the clock, the rotation is performed in less than 24 hours. 1860 H. N. Robinson Elem. Class Bk. Astron. 97 The sun at this time being fast, shows that it comes to the meridian 16m. 16s. before 12 o'clock, true mean time. 1872 E. P. Jackson Man. Direct. Use Stellar Tellurian 24 After this, the sun is ‘slow’ until the 1st of September—then ‘fast’ until about Christmas. 1907 W. E. Johnson Math. Geogr. vi. 128 Ascertain from the analemma the number of minutes and seconds the sun is fast or slow. 2002 T. G. Feeman Portraits of Earth App. B. 108 When the sun is ‘fast’, that means that local solar noon occurs before local mean noon. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。