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Time told by a fictitious sun in which the earth is neither tilted on its axis nor moving about the sun in an elliptical orbit. This is the time indicated by a standard clock or wrist watch.
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a measure of time based conceptually on the diurnal motion of the fictitious mean sun, under the assumption that the Earth's rate of rotation is constant.
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hour of day as determined by the apparent angular motion of the sun across the sky, with solar noon as the reference point for 12 o'clock  wahre Ortszeit
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(astronomy) time based on the motion of the mean sun (an imaginary sun moving uniformly along the celestial equator)
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Time based on an imaginary "mean Sun". See the tutorial on Time.
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