yestersol

English

Etymology

From yester- + sol (Martian day), by analogy with yesterday.

Adverb

yestersol (not comparable)

  1. On the sol (Martian day) before the present one.
    • 2001, Mary Turzillo, "Mars is No Place for Children", in Nebula Awards Showcase 2001: The Year's Best SF and Fantasy Chosen by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (ed. Robert Silverberg), Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2001), →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 examples of usage of this term, see Citations:yestersol.

Noun

yestersol (plural yestersols)

  1. The sol (Martian day) before the present one.
    • 2003, Sue Vorenberg, "Mars Central", Albuquerque Tribune, 19 December 2003:
      "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 examples of usage of this term, see Citations:yestersol.

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