Library / English Dictionary

UTC

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 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 ("UTC" 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 "UTC"):

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)

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 Context examples: 

Neil Armstrong stepped on the surface of the moon technically the next day, July 21, at 2:56 UTC.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported the first quake occurred at 7:37 p.m. local time (1137 UTC) on Wednesday.

(Aftershocks increase death toll of magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Philippines, Wikinews)