Sol - Definition and Overview

Sol is the name or personification of the Sun, as originally used in Latin.

The name is widely known, but not common in general English usage, although the related adjective solar is. It seems to be more frequently used in science fiction writing as a formal name for the star, perhaps to avoid the geocentric associations of the word Sun. By extension, the planetary system orbiting is often referred to as the "Sol System".

See also:

• Solar system
• Star

Other meanings

• Sol is Latin for: sunlight, sunbeam, east (the direction where the sun rises, a specially at the vernal equinox, the new years day in the roman calendar).
• The term sol is also used by planetary astronomers and NASA engineers to refer to the duration of a solar day on the planet Mars. A mean Earth solar day is by definition 24 hours. A mean Mars solar day, or "sol", is 24 hours 39 minutes 35.244 seconds[1] (http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/mars24/help/notes.html). See Time, date and astronomy on Mars.
• Sol, the Roman god of the sun, was equivalent to the Greek god Helios. See Helios for more details.
• Norse mythology features a sun goddess named Sól (with and the s-rune ᛋ named after her).
• The sol is also the currency of Peru (ISO 4217 currency code: PEN).
• A sol is a colloidal solution in which the system is apparently liquid. If water is the continuous phase, the system is called a hydrosol. The term sol is also applied to the dispersion medium of a colloidal solution. See sol (colloid) for more details.
• In solfege, sol is the fifth note of the scale.
• Sol. is the standard botanical author abbreviation for the botanist Daniel Solander.
• Sol is also the name of the Klondike solitaire card game which is part of the GNOME desktop environment.
• In some translated versions of the Star Trek television show, "Warp" was instead called "Sol".
• In the 1970s, the company Processor Technology made an early microcomputer called the SOL-20.
• Sol is a fictional character created by Marc Favreau that stars in an Ontarian educational television series , two Quebec children's comedy shows, as well as Favreau's own one-man shows.
• Sol is the name of a Mexican brewer.
• Sol means sun in Portuguese, Spanish, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, among other languages.
• Sol may refer to English football player Sol Campbell.
• Sol is a proposed name for the 7th month of the 13-month International Fixed Calendar.
• SOL is an initialism for Shit Outta Luck.
• Sol, acronym for speed of light.
• Sol. can be short form for solution.
• SOL is an acronym for Solaris Orbital Laser, a deus ex machina often featured in science fiction, notably the movie Akira.
• SOL is an acronym for the Satellite of Love, the spacecraft serving as the main setting for the television show Mystery Science Theater 3000