DATE OF REFERENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does date of reference mean? 

• DATE OF REFERENCE (noun)
  The noun DATE OF REFERENCE has 1 sense:

1. (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded

  Familiarity information: DATE OF REFERENCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DATE OF REFERENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

date of reference; epoch

Hypernyms ("date of reference" is a kind of...):

date (the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred)

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)