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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
solar
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a solar eclipse (also an eclipse of the Sun) (= one in which the Sun is hidden behind the Moon)
▪ You need to wear protective glasses to view a solar eclipse.
solar cell
solar energy
▪ The water pump is powered by solar energy.
solar heating (=heating powered by the sun)
▪ They've installed solar heating in the new house.
solar panel
solar plexus
▪ a blow to the solar plexus
solar power (=energy produced by sunlight)
▪ They use solar power for all their heating.
solar radiation (=from the sun)
▪ How can solar radiation be trapped and used?
solar system
solar year
the lunar/solar cycle (=relating to the moon or the sun)
▪ the 28-day lunar cycle
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
activity
▪ The neutron observations may help cast new light on solar flares and solar activity.
▪ An increase in the number of dark spots on the sun marks such a period of high solar activity.
▪ They say that the concentrated magnetic fields in sunspots spread out all over the sun somewhat after the maximum of solar activity.
▪ The effects of geomagnetic and solar activity over the long term are important factors in planning satellite missions.
▪ The ability to forecast ionospheric conditions is related to solar activity.
cell
▪ Note that the solar cell has an efficiency of only about 10%.
▪ Research on solar-cell design has recently shown us how to make extremely lightweight solar cells.
▪ Alternatively, arrays of solar cells may be made on the Moon out of lunar materials and only the power exported.
▪ He is planning another trip into the countryside to demonstrate his solar cells as well as a new solar cooker.
▪ But solar cells are constantly improving, experts say.
▪ These modular construction kits now include solar cells, rechargeable batteries etc.
▪ A solar cell panel repays the electric power needed to manufacture it in its first few hours of operation.
collector
▪ A solar collector area of around 4m 2 to 5m 2 is usually considered the optimum.
▪ Large solar collectors would be deployed, probably on roving processing plants, to focus sunlight on to the baking ovens.
▪ The concept is essentially one of replacing expensive solar collectors and solar cells with tree leaves.
▪ Suppose we have a processor with a thousand-square-meter solar collector.
▪ They use solar collectors and windmills for energy supply and each region aims at self-sufficiency in proteins.
▪ Would not these storms coat solar collectors and solar-cell panels with a thick layer of dust, shutting them down?
▪ The main difficulty will be in installing the solar collector itself.
cycle
▪ But a feature of each solar cycle is that the magnetic poles reverse.
▪ The maximum in the current solar cycle has passed, but both solar and geomagnetic activity remain high.
▪ During the 206-year solar cycle the sunlight received by the Earth changes by only 0.1 %.
▪ In summary, our results provide circumstantial support for the hypothesized link between solar cycle length and irradiance.
eclipse
▪ That special trams were run to enable people to view a solar eclipse?
▪ No solar eclipses will be visible from the United States in 1996, and only two will be visible from Earth.
▪ As the day of the solar eclipse approached, Ellie received many invitations from well meaning friends.
▪ Twenty-one shots of the solar eclipse hang beside a woman bending over in the bath.
▪ But when you have a solar eclipse in your sign at Christmas, things are going a bit too far.
▪ This is a total solar eclipse.
▪ Consequently the dates of total solar eclipses form a rather complex sequence.
energy
▪ Cheap solar energy conversion has been a dream of some scientists since the first oil crisis back in the late 1970s.
▪ Furthermore, Conservation moves are very effective in this sector and solar energy is very suitable for water heating needs.
▪ All these provide indirect means of converting solar energy to forms of energy which are useful to us.
▪ We now know that solar energy is an idea whose time has come.
▪ He wondered again about its black color; that was ideal, of course, for absorbing solar energy.
▪ Grätzel has turned this precise, and expensive, physicist's approach to solar energy conversion on its head.
▪ Also, the monsoon overcast tended to cut down the amount of solar energy available.
flare
▪ The neutron observations may help cast new light on solar flares and solar activity.
▪ Unshielded, an astronaut could be exposed to hundreds of rads during a solar flare.
▪ For solar flares, a system of early warning satellites around the Sun could detect the first sign of trouble.
▪ This also shows that the ejections are not necessarily triggered by solar flares, a view that has recently been gaining support.
gain
▪ The windows are not designed for ventilation, but to admit daylight and control solar gain.
▪ This assumption omits any effects from both solar gains and thermal mass.
▪ All living rooms and bedrooms face south or west and have large windows for passive solar gain and planted pergolas for shading.
panel
▪ There are two techniques for using a wind generator or a solar panel.
▪ Here, 300 workers are busy pumping out solar panels.
▪ The result has been that solar panels are now comparable in price to wind generators.
▪ The most obvious source of the necessary electrical energy would be solar panels set out on the lunar surface.
▪ The major difficulty with comparing solar panels is that manufacturers' output figures can not be compared.
▪ The batteries for the torches were recharged from the wind generator and the solar panels, as was the radio battery.
▪ Most of the solar panels we came across in our survey used monocrystalline silicone cells.
▪ Only the solar panels were kept clear so they could continue to generate electricity.
plexus
▪ A drop of juniper can also be rubbed into your forearms and solar plexus.
▪ You go crazy with the frustration and throw a bad punch and take his counter in your mouth or solar plexus.
▪ He began to work on the body, aiming for the solar plexus all the time.
▪ When I finally saw his face, the muscles surrounding my solar plexus contracted fiercely with the shock of recognition.
▪ The impact of that failure must have been like a fierce left hook in the solar plexus.
▪ You could then lean back and pick up the front foot, thrusting it straight into the opponent's solar plexus.
▪ Had the batsman not ducked, the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus.
▪ It was like a jagged knife, jerking in her solar plexus.
power
▪ But the idea of full-blown solar power stations is unrealistic in the foreseeable future.
▪ The belt provides vast material resources, vast amounts of solar power, and vast elbow room.
▪ Publications for teachers and pupils on wind and solar power are available.
▪ The Sacramento Municipal Utilities District has a similar program for solar power.
▪ The second is that solar power can supply all of Britain's energy needs.
▪ Thus, it is solar power that provides the energy to heat the exhaust.
▪ The sun may not shine that much on Britain but that doesn't exclude us from using solar power.
▪ But solar power remained a tantalizing lure to both environmentalists and entrepreneurs.
radiation
▪ Crop yields would fall as a result of shorter growing periods, and reduced solar radiation due to heavier cloud cover.
▪ They grow long tails as material streams away from their rocky cores driven by solar radiation.
▪ But because ultraviolet radiation is a constant feature of solar radiation, the ozone layer is maintained.
▪ Yet the solar radiation from the sun, then a faint, young star, was approximately 30 percent less.
▪ How can solar radiation be directly trapped and used?
▪ Capital cost is nearly £7 for every watt of electrical energy to be produced by solar radiation.
▪ Indeed, infra-red light is chiefly responsible for the general warming effect of solar radiation.
sail
▪ The creation of this solar sail is something that should be done anyway.
▪ What's the launch schedule of the test solar sail and how long will it stay in orbit?
▪ We will broadcast messages from the solar sail which will be relayed to the toys in local languages.
▪ There are many missions that only solar sails can do.
▪ These solar sails would be slow to accelerate, but could eventually reach high speeds - at zero fuel cost.
▪ I think the most exciting idea is to launch an Earth-Moon solar sail race.
▪ So how did you get from airships to solar sails?
▪ In trying to learn about inflatable technology, I came across the solar sail concept.
system
▪ A less-contrived example involves the relation between Kepler's theory of the solar system and Newton's.
▪ The supposed permanent subsolar point would be the hottest place in the solar system outside the Sun.
▪ Henceforth the whole cosmos or at least the whole solar system must be conceived as a process of constant historical change.
▪ All the heavy materials came from junk spinning somewhere around in the solar system.
▪ Female speaker Can anyone one tell me about the solar system, or anything they know about it.
▪ Not long ago I had read that each atom was a sort of solar system.
▪ If we could observe several different solar systems around other stars, the resulting constants would vary.
▪ More than a million life forms have developed on this unique spot in the solar system.
wind
▪ The solar wind loses its identity in the interstellar medium at a distance no less than that of the outer planets.
▪ It is true that the Sun emits helium-3 in the solar wind, and that in principle we could intercept it.
▪ When the solar wind is strong the magnetopause retreats to about 50 R J upwind.
▪ The lunar surface also contains the light isotope helium-3, which is implanted in the surface by the solar wind.
▪ Between the bow shock and the magnetopause the solar wind is greatly decelerated.
▪ An obvious question is whether the surfaces of the asteroids might be rich in helium-3 implanted by the solar wind.
▪ Some theorists even believe that solar wind particles hitting the atmosphere may trigger cloud formation.
▪ Kulcinski argues that the solar wind has implanted great quantities of hydrogen and helium into the lunar regolith.
year
▪ Our calendar year is based on the solar year - the number of days the earth takes to travel round the sun.
▪ But since then our calendar year has been the same as the solar year.
▪ The nineteen-year cycle depends on the discovery that nineteen solar years are very nearly equal to 235 lunar months.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the solar system
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a solar observatory
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An increase in the number of dark spots on the sun marks such a period of high solar activity.
▪ At times of strong solar heating there may be many active dust devils at the same time.
▪ But because ultraviolet radiation is a constant feature of solar radiation, the ozone layer is maintained.
▪ Furthermore, Conservation moves are very effective in this sector and solar energy is very suitable for water heating needs.
▪ Girl, light the torches in the solar!
▪ Guy took two steps away from the solar door and had to stop.
▪ The first solar panels were developed by Bell Laboratories in 1954 as part of the space program.
▪ There are many missions that only solar sails can do.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Solar

Solar \So"lar\, n. [OE. soler, AS. solere, L. solarium, from sol the sun. See Solar, a.] A loft or upper chamber; a garret room. [Obs.] [Written also soler, solere, sollar.]
--Oxf. Gloss.

Solar

Solar \So"lar\, a. [L. solaris, fr. sol the sun; akin to As. s[=o]l, Icel. s[=o]l, Goth. sauil, Lith. saule, W. haul,. sul, Skr. svar, perhaps to E. sun:F. solaire. Cf. Parasol. Sun.]

  1. Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun; as, the solar system; solar light; solar rays; solar influence. See Solar system, below.

  2. (Astrol.) Born under the predominant influence of the sun.

    And proud beside, as solar people are.
    --Dryden.

  3. Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.

  4. Produced by the action of the sun, or peculiarly affected by its influence.

    They denominate some herbs solar, and some lunar.
    --Bacon.

    Solar cycle. See under Cycle.

    Solar day. See Day, 2.

    Solar engine, an engine in which the energy of solar heat is used to produce motion, as in evaporating water for a steam engine, or expanding air for an air engine.

    Solar flowers (Bot.), flowers which open and shut daily at certain hours.

    Solar lamp, an argand lamp.

    Solar microscope, a microscope consisting essentially, first, of a mirror for reflecting a beam of sunlight through the tube, which sometimes is fixed in a window shutter; secondly, of a condenser, or large lens, for converging the beam upon the object; and, thirdly, of a small lens, or magnifier, for throwing an enlarged image of the object at its focus upon a screen in a dark room or in a darkened box.

    Solar month. See under Month.

    Solar oil, a paraffin oil used an illuminant and lubricant.

    Solar phosphori (Physics), certain substances, as the diamond, siulphide of barium (Bolognese or Bologna phosphorus), calcium sulphide, etc., which become phosphorescent, and shine in the dark, after exposure to sunlight or other intense light.

    Solar plexus (Anat.), a nervous plexus situated in the dorsal and anterior part of the abdomen, consisting of several sympathetic ganglia with connecting and radiating nerve fibers; -- so called in allusion to the radiating nerve fibers.

    Solar spots. See Sun spots, under Sun.

    Solar system (Astron.), the sun, with the group of celestial bodies which, held by its attraction, revolve round it. The system comprises the major planets, with their satellites; the minor planets, or asteroids, and the comets; also, the meteorids, the matter that furnishes the zodiacal light, and the rings of Saturn. The satellites that revolve about the major planets are twenty-two in number, of which the Earth has one (see Moon.), Mars two, Jupiter five, Saturn nine, Uranus four, and Neptune one. The asteroids, between Mars and Jupiter, thus far discovered (1900), number about five hundred, the first four of which were found near the beginning of the century, and are called Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta.

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    Solar telegraph, telegraph for signaling by flashes of reflected sunlight.

    Solar time. See Apparent time, under Time.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
solar

mid-15c., "pertaining to the sun," from Latin solaris "of the sun," from sol "sun" (see sol). Meaning "living room on an upper story" is from Old English, from Latin solarium (see solarium). Old English had sunlic "solar."\n

\nAstrological sense from 1620s. Meaning "operated by means of the sun" is from 1740; solar power is attested from 1915, solar cell from 1955, solar panel from 1964. Solar system is attested from c.1704; solar wind is from 1958. Solar plexus (1771) "complex of nerves in the pit of the stomach," apparently so called from its central position in the body (see plexus).

Wiktionary
solar

Etymology 1 a. 1 Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun; as, the solar system; solar light; solar rays; solar influence. 2 (context astrology obsolete English) Born under the predominant influence of the sun. 3 Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year. 4 produce by the action of the sun, or peculiarly affected by its influence. Etymology 2

n. (context obsolete English) A loft or upper chamber forming the private accommodation of the head of the household in a medieval hall; a garret room.

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WordNet
solar

adj. relating to or derived from the sun or utilizing the energies of the sun; "solar eclipse"; "solar energy"

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Wikipedia
Solar (comics)

Solar is an American fictional comic book superhero created by writer Paul S. Newman, editor Matt Murphy, and artist Bob Fujitani. The character first appeared in Doctor Solar, Man of the Atom #1 in 1962 by Gold Key Comics and has since appeared in other incarnations in books published by Valiant Comics in the 1990s, Dark Horse Comics in the 2000s, and Dynamite Entertainment in the 2010s.

SOLAR

SOLAR may refer to:

  • SOLAR, a space observatory on ISS
  • SOLAR Records, a record company
  • SOLAR Taeyang's solo album
  • Southern Organization for Live Action Reenactments, or SOLAR
Solar (composition)

"Solar" ( or ) is a musical composition attributed to Miles Davis on the studio album Walkin' (1954), considered a modern jazz standard. The tune has been played and recorded by many musicians including his former bandmates/collaborators Lee Konitz, Bill Evans, Dave Holland, Keith Jarrett or Jack DeJohnette. A controversy exists over authorship of this composition and one current consensus holds that Davis' "Solar" is essentially an earlier song, "Sonny", written by Chuck Wayne.

The first two measures of this song adorn Miles Davis' tombstone in Woodlawn Cemetery.

Solar (room)

The solar was a room in many English and French medieval manor houses, great houses and castles, generally situated on an upper storey, designed as the family's private living and sleeping quarters. In such houses, the main ground-floor room was known as the Great Hall, in which all members of the household, including tenants, employees and servants, would eat. Those of highest status would be at the end, often on a raised dais, and those of lesser status further down the hall. But a need was felt for more privacy to be enjoyed by the head of the household, and, especially, by the senior women of the household. The solar was a room for their particular benefit, in which they could be alone and away from the hustle, bustle, noise and smells (including cooking smells) of the Great Hall.

The solar was generally smaller than the Great Hall, because it was not expected to accommodate so many people, but it was a room of comfort and status, and usually included a fireplace and often decorative woodwork or tapestries/wall hangings.

In manor houses of western France, the solar was sometimes a separate tower or pavilion, away from the ground-floor hall (great hall) to provide more privacy to the lord and his family.

SOLAR (ISS)

SOLAR

]] SOLAR is an ESA science observatory on the Columbus Laboratory, which is part of the International Space Station. SOLAR was launched with Columbus on February 2008 aboard STS-122. It was externally mounted to Columbus with the European Technology Exposure Facility (EuTEF). SOLAR has three main space science instruments: SOVIM, SOLSPEC and SOL-ACES. Together they provide detailed measurements of the Sun's spectral irradiance. The SOLAR platform and its instruments are controlled from the Belgian User Support and Operations Centre (B.USOC), located at the Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BISA) in Uccle, Belgium.

  • SOVIM (Solar Variantions and Irradiance Monitor) instrument is based on an earlier instrument (SOVA) which flew aboard the European Retrievable Carrier, launched on STS-46 in 1992. It is designed to measure solar radiation with wavelengths from 200 nanometers - 100 micrometers. This covers near- ultraviolet, visible and infrared areas of the spectrum.
  • SOLSPEC (Solar Spectral irradiance measurements) is designed to measure the solar spectral irradiance in the 165 - 3000 nanometer range with high spectral resolution.
  • SOL-ACES (Auto-calibrating Extreme Ultraviolet and Ultraviolet spectrometers) consists of four grazing incidence grating spectrometers. They are designed to measure the EUV/UV spectral regime (17 nanometers - 220 nanometers) with moderate spectral resolution.

The mission was originally planned for a 2003 launch, but was delayed following the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Some other components are also planned to be mounted externally on Columbus on future missions, including the Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES). Another name for SOLAR may be Solar Monitoring Observatory or SMO.

In 2012, the entire 450 tonne station was rotated so SOLAR could observe a full rotation of the Sun continuously. A Solar rotation takes about 24–28 days depending on the latitude.

Solar (novel)

Solar is a novel by author Ian McEwan, first published on 18 March 2010 by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Random House. It is a satire about a jaded Nobel-winning physicist whose dysfunctional personal life and cynical ambition see him pursuing a solar-energy based solution for climate change.

Solar (Taeyang album)

Solar is the first full-length solo album by Korean singer Taeyang, member of Big Bang. The album was released in two forms: the "Regular Edition" and the "Deluxe Edition" which is limited to 30,000 copies worldwide. The lead-single was "I Need a Girl" featuring his bandmate G-Dragon. In Solar, Taeyang put much effort into enhancing his vocal skills as well as his composing, co-writing as many as four songs ("Solar", "Where U At", "Wedding Dress", and "Take It Slow") and writing lyrics for "Take It Slow".

Taeyang's first international album, Solar International, is the first ever K-Pop music release to be sold worldwide on iTunes as both an audio and video album. The audio version (complete with a digital booklet) hit iTunes stores on August 19, 2010, while the video version (bundled with bonus, behind the scenes documentaries) arrived by September 10, 2010. The audio album combines both English and Korean hits from his past and present albums including "I'll Be There", "Connection" (feat. BIG TONE), "Wedding Dress" and "I Need a Girl (feat. G-Dragon)".

Solar (Red Garland album)

Solar is an album by jazz musician Red Garland, recorded in 1962 and released the same year on Jazzland as JLP 73.

Solar (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the solar is a type of angel.

Solar (Spanish term)

In Spanish urban development a solar is a plot of land that meets minimum conditions to be built on and developed properly according to existing land use regulations. These conditions relate primarily to water supply and access to the electrical grid, disposal or purification of wastewater and road access.

The specific characteristics required for such a plot to be considered a "solar" are set for each Spanish Autonomous Region based on these criteria. During the Spanish colonization of the Americas, the solar was one of the basic units into which cities were divided; solares were assigned when a new settlement was founded.

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Usage examples of "solar".

And I make myself some Gobi Aloo Sag with red food coloring in it and some strawberry milk shake for a drink, and then I watch a video about the solar system and I play some computer games and I go to bed.

In the Solar System, the Amalgams had focused and directed the gravity beams used to tear up the planetary surfaces and launch them into free space.

Second, the Solar System Amalgams were a few tens of kilometers high at most.

Any rejection by the Anabasis must be confirmed and approved through the office of the Solar Ambassador.

You probably spent the morning practicing Solar Pool and dreaming about anachronistic distaff apparel, and never bothered to keep up with world events.

The populations of the attacked Rim worlds had been driven insane by the presence of the Terrors appalling heralds, but Corcoran had been right at the edge of the solar system, racing towards hyperspace and safety.

But though the experiments which I have made on the decomposition of vapors by light might be numbered by the thousand, I have, to my regret, encountered no fact which prove that free aqueous vapor is decomposed by the solar rays, or that the sun is reheated by the combination of gases, in the severance of which it had previously sacrificed its heat.

But if the relation of liquids to their vapors be that here shadowed forth, if in both cases the molecule asserts itself to be the dominant factor, then the dispersion of the water of our seas and rivers, as invisible aqueous vapor in our atmosphere, does not annul the action of the molecules on solar and terrestrial heat.

Now the iron beast, consuming its ration of coal, is really browsing the ancient foliage of arborescent ferns in which solar energy has accumulated.

Adikor off near the home he had been looking for, a simple rectangular building, half grown by arboriculture, half built with bricks and mortar, with solar panels on its roof.

Nursing my arm, I looked up through streaming tears at the man behind it and caught my breath, cutting off the noise I was making, almost as if they had also managed to thump me in the solar plexus.

Perhaps the solar ultraviolet light could be absorbed by an atmospheric layer of pulverized asteroidal or surface debris injected in carefully titrated amounts above the CFCs.

Until, one hopes, this conference is safely ended and all the attendees packed off to their respective solar systems.

One of the biogenesis trillionaires acquired the land, then, with considerable fanfare, built the mansion, and for a moment or two, there was no more famous address in the solar system.

With the cruel detachment of a cat with a mouse, the pneuma began disabling him bit by bit, striking almost at will at the brachial, solar plexus, carotid sinus, and larynx.