PST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does PST mean? 

• PST (noun)
  The noun PST has 1 sense:

1. standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west; used in far western states of the United States

  Familiarity information: PST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west; used in far western states of the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Pacific Standard Time; Pacific Time; PST

Hypernyms ("PST" 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)

 Context examples 

This made the PST able to withstand much larger voltages, and produce much better cooling over a much larger range of temperatures.

(Electronic solid could reduce carbon emissions in fridges and air conditioners, University of Cambridge)

The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 9:54 a.m. PST, carrying 10 communications satellites to be placed in orbit before returning to Earth.

(SpaceX Completes Successful Rocket Launch, VOA News)

Asteroid 2002 AJ129 will make a close approach to Earth on Feb. 4, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. PST (4:30 p.m. EST / 21:30 UTC).

(Asteroid 2002 AJ129 to Fly Safely Past Earth February 4, NASA)

The lander touched down Monday, Nov. 26, near Mars' equator on the western side of a flat, smooth expanse of lava called Elysium Planitia, with a signal affirming a completed landing sequence at 11:52:59 a.m. PST (2:52:59 p.m. EST).

(NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface, NASA)

Mission controllers at ESA's mission operations center in Darmstadt, Germany, received a signal confirming that the Philae lander had touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Wednesday, Nov. 12, just after 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST.

(Rosetta's 'Philae' Makes Historic First Landing on a Comet, NASA)

The Cambridge researchers, working with colleagues in Costa Rica and Japan, used high-quality layers of PST with metallic electrodes sandwiched in between.

(Electronic solid could reduce carbon emissions in fridges and air conditioners, University of Cambridge)

The device is based on layers of a material composed of oxygen and three metallic elements known as PST, and it displays the largest electrocaloric effects – changes in temperature when an electric field is applied – yet observed in a body large enough for cooling applications.

(Electronic solid could reduce carbon emissions in fridges and air conditioners, University of Cambridge)