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COORDINATED UNIVERSAL TIME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds
Synonyms:
coordinated universal time; UTC
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("coordinated universal time" is a kind of...):
GMT; Greenwich Mean Time; Greenwich Time; universal time; UT; UT1 (the local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England; it is the same everywhere)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coordinated universal time"):
Earth-received time; ERT (the coordinated universal time when an event is received on Earth)
transmission time; TRM (the coordinated universal time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body)
SCET; spacecraft event time (the coordinated universal time on board the spacecraft)
