dayside
1
7.7
- noun
- /ˈdeɪˌsaɪd/
- Specialized
:
lado diurno
- The scientists noted that the dayside of the gas giant was vastly different in temperature and atmospheric composition compared to the darker side.
Examples
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The temperature on the dayside of the moon can reach scorching heights due to constant exposure to sunlight.
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He nodded toward the view of dayside Africa rolling past on the television.
Fiction book (1996) -
By the time the hospital starcraft burst onto Splendor's dayside, it was in trouble.
Fiction book (2002) -
You seem very willing to maintain that the mass of the atmospheric column over the tropics on the dayside is invariable?
Blog text (28) -
The dayside seemed afire.
Fiction book (2001) -
You agree when you say: "The excitation on the dayside is caused by solar UV and X-ray."
Blog text (28) -
It should whip around nightside, start across the Great Sea, then come back into dayside and ground itself on the western side of the main continent.
Fiction book (2002) -
Two klicks from the mouth of the pass, she caught the great wave of air where the prevailing westerlies roll over Dayside Archipelago, soaring on the standing wave like a fiery-haired angel.
Fiction book (1998) -
The excitation on the dayside is caused by solar UV and X-ray; on the nightside, by the aurorae and precipitating particles from the tail in general.
Blog text (28) -
During the mission, the astronauts took photographs of the brightly lit planet's dayside as it rotated into view.
Antonyms
- Specialized
1
8.2
The side of a planet or moon that is dark because the sun does not shine there
How Illuminated
- Specialized
1
7.7
- Specialized
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8.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dayside comes from the simple parts day ('time with sunlight') and side ('part or face'). It means the 'side of a planet that is in daylight', the part that faces the sun.