yestersol
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From yester- + sol (“Martian day”), by analogy with yesterday.
Adverb[edit]
yestersol (not comparable)
- On the sol (Martian day) before the present one.
- 2001, Mary Turzillo, “Mars is No Place for Children”, in Robert Silverberg, editor, Nebula Awards Showcase 2001: The Year's Best SF and Fantasy Chosen by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 61:
- But yestersol he took Mother into the old middle-pressure greenhouse (the little one they built when they first arrived here) and got her involved in a long discussion.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:yestersol.
Noun[edit]
yestersol (plural yestersols)
- The sol (Martian day) before the present one.
- 2003 December 19, Sue Vorenberg, “Mars Central”, in Albuquerque Tribune:
- "We'll basically be waking up in the Mars morning, which will be 47 minutes later each day, and uploading our commands from 'yestersol,'" he said.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:yestersol.