solar

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   relating to or derived from the sun or utilizing the energies of the sun

   solar eclipse

2. 2
   adj

   Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun.

   solar light

3. 3
   adj

   Born under the predominant influence of the sun.

   and proud beside, as solar people are

4. 4
   adj

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

   They denominate some herbs solar, and some lunar.

5. 5
   adj

   Employing solar power.

   a solar furnace

6. 6
   noun

   Ellipsis of solar energy.

   He’s a player in robots and solar, cryptocurrency and climate, brain-computer implants to stave off the menace of artificial intelligence and underground tunnels to move people and freight at super speeds.

7. 7
   adj

   Alternative letter-case form of solar (“pertaining to the Sun (the star Sol)”).

   We have not yet the instruments that we want for that work, but I have asked for a Solar spectrograph, and I am already in the preliminary talkings to order a spectroheliograph […]

8. 8
   adj

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

Etymology

From Middle English solar, soler; from a conflation of Old English soler, solere (“raised platform; loft, upper room, upper part of a house, soler”), from Latin sōlārium; and Old English solor, salor (“residence, dwelling; hall; palace”), from Proto-West Germanic *salaʀ, from Proto-Germanic *salaz, *salą (“house, room, hall”). More at sale.