solstice in the PONS Dictionary

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They believed that it was seated immediately under the tropic, and that on the day of the summer solstice, a vertical staff cast no shadow.
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Two golden arcs along the sides, marking the angle between the solstices, were added later.
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The rest of the nation recognizes the summer solstice as the event when the sun's rays are closest to being direct.
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It is so named because that day was 2002's summer solstice, the longest day of the year.
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The summer solstice occurs during a hemisphere's summer.
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This is slightly odd for schools to open "before" the summer solstice begins.
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The time at which each hemisphere points farthest or nearest from its star is known as its solstice.
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They put the lion, as the king of their animal kingdom, into the place in the zodiac in which the summer solstice occurs.
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The line is instead more of a gnomon or sundial/calendar, meant to mark the solstice and equinoxes.
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For this reason during the summer solstice, the night is magic.
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