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TRANSMISSION TIME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does transmission time mean?
• TRANSMISSION TIME (noun)
The noun TRANSMISSION TIME has 1 sense:
1. the coordinated universal time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body
Familiarity information: TRANSMISSION TIME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The coordinated universal time when a transmission is sent from Earth to a spacecraft or other celestial body
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
transmission time; TRM
Hypernyms ("transmission time" is a kind of...):
coordinated universal time; UTC (Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds)
Context examples
Issue associated with an error due to imperfect timing of two operations; this may or may not include signal transmission time.
(Inaccurate Synchronization Medical Device Problem, Food and Drug Administration)
The coding of data to save storage space or transmission time.
(Data Compression, NCI Thesaurus)
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