Usually means: Rotation period relative to stars.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word sidereal day:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. sidereal day: Merriam-Webster
  2. sidereal day: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sidereal day: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sidereal day: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sidereal day: Vocabulary.com
  6. sidereal day: Wordnik
  7. sidereal day: Wiktionary
  8. sidereal day: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. sidereal day: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. sidereal day: Dictionary.com
  11. Sidereal day: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. sidereal day: Rhymezone
  13. sidereal day: FreeDictionary.org
  14. sidereal day: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. sidereal day: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technology Terms and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. sidereal day: Encyclopedia

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Sidereal Day: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  3. Sidereal Day: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

(Note: See sidereal_days as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (sidereal day)

noun:  (astronomy) One day of sidereal time; the time in which Earth rotates once around its axis, relative to the point of the vernal equinox (about 23 hours, 56 minutes, 4 seconds).
noun:  (astronomy) The rotational period of Earth; the time in which Earth rotates around its axis 360 degrees.

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