Usually means: Fictitious sun for averaging time.
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  1. mean sun: Merriam-Webster
  2. mean sun: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mean sun: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mean sun: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mean sun: Vocabulary.com
  6. mean sun: Wordnik
  7. mean sun: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. mean sun: Dictionary.com
  9. Mean sun: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. mean sun: Rhymezone
  11. mean sun: FreeDictionary.org
  12. mean sun: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. mean sun: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. mean sun: Wiktionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mean sun: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mean Sun: Extragalactic Astronomy

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See mean_suns as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (mean sun)

noun:  An imaginary sun that moves along the celestial equator at a constant rate equivalent to the real sun's average rate over the year, used in the calculation of solar time.

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