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UNIVERSAL TIME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does universal time mean?
• UNIVERSAL TIME (noun)
The noun UNIVERSAL TIME has 1 sense:
1. the local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England; it is the same everywhere
Familiarity information: UNIVERSAL TIME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England; it is the same everywhere
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
GMT; Greenwich Mean Time; Greenwich Time; universal time; UT; UT1
Hypernyms ("universal time" is a kind of...):
time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "universal time"):
coordinated universal time; UTC (Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds)
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