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GREENWICH MEAN TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Greenwich Mean Time mean? 

GREENWICH MEAN TIME (noun)
  The noun GREENWICH MEAN TIME has 1 sense:

1. the local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England; it is the same everywhereplay

  Familiarity information: GREENWICH MEAN TIME used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GREENWICH MEAN TIME (noun)


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 ("Greenwich Mean 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 "Greenwich Mean Time"):

coordinated universal time; UTC (Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds)


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