Lunar vs Sol - What's the difference?
lunar | sol |
Of, or pertaining to, the Moon; moonly.
Crescent-shaped, lunate.
Resembling the moon; orbed.
Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties.
(alchemy) Of, or pertaining to, silver.
(astronomy) A lunar distance.
(anatomy) The middle bone of the proximal series of the carpus.
(music) The fifth step in the scale of C (Ut), preceded by fa and followed by la.
(label) A solar day on Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds).
gold
A Spanish-American gold or silver coin, now the main currency unit of Peru (also new sol ) , or a coin of this value.
* (rfdate), M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana :
A type of colloid in which a solid is dispersed in a liquid.
In astronomy terms the difference between lunar and sol
is that lunar is a lunar distance while sol is a solar day on Mars (equivalent to 24 hours, 39 minutes, 35 seconds).As a proper noun Sol is
the Sun.lunar
English
Adjective
(-)- lunar observations
- (Dryden)
- lunar herbs
- (Francis Bacon)
Derived terms
* lunacy * lunate * lunar caustic * lunar cycle * lunar distance * lunar module * lunar month * lunar node * lunar observation * lunar orbit * lunar yearNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (bone) intermedium, semilunar (Webster 1913)Anagrams
* * ----sol
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m) in the hymn for St. John the Baptist all note names were take from.Alternative forms
* so, sohNoun
(-)Etymology 2
.Noun
(en noun)- (Chaucer)
See also
* Sol * yestersolEtymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- Three days after, the Great Sun, his brother, sent me another deer-skin of the same oil, to the quantity of forty pints. The most common sort sold this year at twenty sols a pint, and I was sure mine was not of the worst kind.