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Solstice vs Sunsted - What's the difference?

solstice | sunsted |

As nouns the difference between solstice and sunsted

is that solstice is one of the two points in the ecliptic at which the sun is furthest from the celestial equator. This corresponds to one of two days in the year when the day is either longest or shortest while sunsted is solstice.

solstice

Noun

(en noun)
  • One of the two points in the ecliptic at which the sun is furthest from the celestial equator. This corresponds to one of two days in the year when the day is either longest or shortest.
  • * 1924 , , Metaphysics . Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: . Book 1, Part 2.
  • For all men begin, as we said, by wondering that things are as they are, as they do about self?moving marionettes, or about the solstices or the incommensurability of the diagonal of a square with the side;

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    Derived terms

    * summer solstice * winter solstice * solstitial

    sunsted

    English

    Noun

  • (obsolete) solstice
  • (Holland)
    (Webster 1913)