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UTC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds
Synonyms:
coordinated universal time; UTC
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("UTC" is a kind of...):
GMT; Greenwich Mean Time; Greenwich Time; universal time; UT; UT1 (the local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England; it is the same everywhere)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "UTC"):
Earth-received time; ERT (the coordinated universal time when an event is received on Earth)
transmission time; TRM (the coordinated universal time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body)
SCET; spacecraft event time (the coordinated universal time on board the spacecraft)
Context examples:
Neil Armstrong stepped on the surface of the moon technically the next day, July 21, at 2:56 UTC.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) reported the first quake occurred at 7:37 p.m. local time (1137 UTC) on Wednesday.
(Aftershocks increase death toll of magnitude 6.3 earthquake in southern Philippines, Wikinews)
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