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Universal Time

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Noun

1. 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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Universal Time

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noun
1. 
(from 1928) name adopted internationally for Greenwich Mean Time (measured from Greenwich midnight), now split into several slightly different scales, one of which (UT1) is used by astronomers
. Abbreviation: UT
2. Also called: universal coordinated time
an internationally agreed system for civil timekeeping introduced in 1960 and redefined in 1972 as an atomic timescale. Available from broadcast signals, it has a second equal to the International Atomic Time (TAI) second, the difference between UTC and TAI being an integral number of seconds with leap seconds inserted when necessary to keep it within 0.9 seconds of UT1
. Abbreviation: UTC

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Universal Time

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Greenwich mean time used as a basis for standard time
see also Coordinated Universal Time

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Universal Time

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n. Abbr. UT
The time at the Prime Meridian, calculated from the apparent rotation of the celestial sphere and used primarily by astronomers.

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