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TT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986
Synonyms:
Federated States of Micronesia; Micronesia; TT
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)
Meronyms (parts of "TT"):
Kolonia (capital of Micronesia)
Ladrone Islands; Mariana Islands; Marianas (a chain of coral and volcanic islands in Micronesia (including Guam and the Northern Marianas) halfway between New Guinea and Japan; discovered by Magellan in 1521)
Caroline Islands (a long archipelago of more than 500 islands in Micronesia to the east of the Philippines)
Marshall Islands (a group of coral islands in eastern Micronesia)
Ellice Islands; Tuvalu (a group of coral islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii)
Kiribati; Republic of Kiribati (an island republic in the west central Pacific just to the south of the equator)
Gilbert and Ellice Islands (a former British possession in Micronesia)
Nauru; Nauru Island; Pleasant Island (a small island in the central Pacific Ocean 2,800 miles to the southwest of Hawaii; in Micronesia to the west of the Gilbert Islands)
Holonyms ("TT" is a part of...):
Micronesia (the islands in the northwestern part of Oceania)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States
Synonyms:
Palau; Republic of Palau; TT
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)
Holonyms ("TT" is a part of...):
Belau; Palau; Palau Islands; Pelew (a chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(astronomy) a measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion; terrestrial time is mean solar time corrected for the irregularities of the Earth's motions
Synonyms:
ephemeris time; TDT; terrestrial dynamical time; terrestrial time; TT
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("TT" is a kind of...):
time unit; unit of time (a unit for measuring time periods)
Domain category:
astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)
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