noon sun
Shadowless overhead light
The noon sun is the sun at or near its highest point in the sky, when it crosses the meridian around midday.
This is when shadows are shortest and sunlight most direct.
The term appears in discussions of solar intensity, photography, and gardening: Avoid planting in the harsh noon sun.
The noon sun beat down on the field.
- middayTwelve hours after midnight
- zenithPoint straight overhead
- highGreat in altitude
- blazingBurning very brightly
- heatTransferred thermal energy
scorching · bright · overhead · glare · sweltering · peak · twelve · meridian · harsh · blinding · hottest · summer · siesta · squint · sweating · cloudless · beating · intense
- sunsol, solar, sunspots, solar flares, solar radiation
- middaytwelve o'clock, noontime, meridian
- lightinglamp, lamps, bulbs, light bulb, light bulbs
- sun worshipRa, Amaterasu, Heliopolis, Apollo, Sol Invictus
noon sunmidnight
Twelve o'clock at night
dead of night · witching hour · dawn · dusk · sunrise
noon sunmidnight moon
Moon at darkest hour
nadir · full moon · moonlight · starlight · moonless night
noon, sun, suns, sunny, sunned, sunning, sunlight, sunshine, sunless