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ATLANTIC STANDARD TIME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Atlantic Standard Time mean?
• ATLANTIC STANDARD TIME (noun)
The noun ATLANTIC STANDARD TIME has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: ATLANTIC STANDARD TIME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ATLANTIC STANDARD TIME (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Atlantic Standard Time; Atlantic Time
Hypernyms ("Atlantic Standard Time" is a kind of...):
civil time; local time; standard time (the official time in a local region (adjusted for location around the Earth); established by law or custom)
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