Meanings
- no pluralThe current sol (Martian day).
Tosol was the day Opportunity shook the miniature thermal emission spectrometer in an effort to remove dust from one of its mirrors.
2013, Dave Lane, Mars Exploration Rover "Opportunity" Vol 3 2007-2008, Lulu.com, published 2013, →ISBN2 more examples
Tosol is the beginning of the week, and tourists will start pouring in from all over Mars and maybe even very rich people from Earth.
2001, Mary Turzillo, “Mars is No Place for Children”, in Robert Silverberg, editor, Nebula Awards Showcase 2001: The Year's Best SF and Fantasy Chosen by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 75This self-awareness is not merely an ability to recite and logically combine facts (“I am a robot on Mars; here is tosol's plan”), […]
2012, William J. Clancey, Working on Mars: Voyages of Scientific Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers, The MIT Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 128
Origin
From to- + sol (“Martian day”), by analogy with today.
Full word history & related roots →Rhymes & wordplay
Anagrams
Cite this entry
tosol. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tosol
“tosol.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tosol. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tosol,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tosol.
Source: tosol on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.