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- noun astronomy The side of a
planet that facesaway from thesun around which it orbits
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Examples
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Though the somewhat misnamed 'nightside' of the satellite was still permanently frozen, an area as large as Africa now had a temperate climate, liquid water, and a few scattered islands.
2061 Odyssey Three Clarke, Arthur C. 1987
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And my gift to him is that part of him lives always here, the nightside of the city that shaped him - and that he is always, always loved.
Monday! alphafenris 2009
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I have the boxed set that I bought in 1985 for $9.95 sitting on my nightside table right now.
Fursplosion 2010
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A man like Titus Oates occurs like a slip of the tongue, disclosing the unconscious forces, the nightside of an age ...
r_urell: William F. Buckley: Father of Modern "Conservatism" r_urell 2010
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He had now almost completed one half-circuit of this world, and was nearing the center of the nightside.
Tin 2010
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Historically, I'm better with deadlines, too, and that was exacerbated by a few years of working nightside at a newspaper, in charge of getting stuff to the press in time.
"I used to feel that I spent too much of my time in my pajamas doing nothing..." Ann Althouse 2008
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The fastest disturbance dynamo effect in numerical simulation is apparent within an hour or two of onset of geomagnetic activity, which could become confused with apparent long-lived penetration on the nightside.
More Evidence That Hurricanes Are The Result Of A Poisson Process « Climate Audit 2007
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On the nightside, fluctuating F-region winds from geomagnetic activity are a likely source of variability.
More Evidence That Hurricanes Are The Result Of A Poisson Process « Climate Audit 2007
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On the dayside, E-region winds tends to dominate the wind-driven electrodynamic variability due to the high conductivities; on the nightside, F-region winds become significant as E-region plasma decays.
More Evidence That Hurricanes Are The Result Of A Poisson Process « Climate Audit 2007
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The enhanced title signaled that Catledge would be the first top editor in Times history with the explicit authority to plan news stories on the dayside and to instruct the nightside editors on how to play them.
My Times 2004
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