sidereal

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They might approximately be counted, but even if counted they would be past conception, like the sidereal system.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or concerned with the stars or constellations; stellar.
  2. adjective Measured or determined by means of the apparent daily motion of the stars: sidereal time.

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  • The time they take to make one complete turn is called a sidereal day. —  Galileo in Rome
  • Wasn't its mass too small to bend space into a microhole The teratron, shorted, acts as a sidereal generator. —  FIASCO - Stanislaw Lem
  • Their civilization was thus on the pre-sidereal level. —  FIASCO - Stanislaw Lem
  • This slightly shorter day is called the “sidereal day,” after a Latin word meaning “star,” since this is the time it takes for the Earth to rotate once relative to the stars. —  StrangeHorizons,August2002
  • While I agree that talking about the misogyny is important, it's kind of sidereal to the point I was trying to make, which was that my childhood and teen years as a trans person shaped my socialization and upbringing in ways that aren't acknowledged. —  Questioning Transphobia
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  1. From Latin sīdereus, from sīdus, sīder-, constellation, star.

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  1. Formerly also siderial; from Latin sidereus (later Italian Spanish Portuguese sidereo), from sidus (sider-), a constellation, a star. Cf. sideral.
 

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