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STANDARD TIME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The official time in a local region (adjusted for location around the Earth); established by law or custom
Synonyms:
civil time; local time; standard time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("standard time" is a kind of...):
time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "standard time"):
Atlantic Standard Time; Atlantic Time (standard time in the 4th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 60th meridian; used in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and Bermuda and the Canadian Maritime Provinces)
Eastern Standard Time; Eastern Time; EST (standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United States)
Central Standard Time; Central Time; CST (standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian; used in the central United States)
Mountain Standard Time; Mountain Time; MST (standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west; used in the mountain states of the United States)
Pacific Standard Time; Pacific Time; PST (standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west; used in far western states of the United States)
Alaska Standard Time; Yukon Time (standard time in the 9th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 135th meridian west; used in Hawaii and most of Alaska)
Hawaii Standard Time; Hawaii Time (standard time in the 10th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 150th meridian west; used in Hawaii and the western Aleutian Islands)
Bering Standard Time; Bering Time (standard time in the 11th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 165th meridian west; used in the Midway Islands)
