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UNIVERSAL TIME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England; it is the same everywhere
Synonyms:
GMT; Greenwich Mean Time; Greenwich Time; universal time; UT; UT1
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("universal 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 "universal time"):
coordinated universal time; UTC (Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds)