uk â /sÉbËmÉªs.Éªv/ us â /sÉbËmÉªs.Éªv/. âº A submissive person allows themselves to be controlled by other people: He was looking for a quiet, submissive wife who would obey his every word. Thesaurus: synonyms and related words. Weakness and vulnerability.
The times of sunrise and sunset, measured by the clock, are also affected by the difference between the two kinds of time. Although the length of daylight is shortest on the winter solstice, around December 21, the dates of earliest sunset and latest sunrise are, somewhat surprisingly, not on this date.
As we have seen, in late December, both sunrise and sunset occur later each day. But after the solstice, the geometric effect, considered alone, tends to shift sunrise earlier as the Sun's daily track in the sky becomes more northerly and longer.But that effect is weaker than the clock effectâat least, for a while.he dates of earliest sunset and latest sunrise are the dates before and after the winter solstice when, at a given latitude, the magnitude of half the daily change in ts equals the magnitude of the daily change of the Equation of Time.