TT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does TT mean? 

• TT (noun)
  The noun TT has 3 senses:

1. (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

2. a republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States

3. a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986

  Familiarity information: TT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TT (noun)

Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

ephemeris time; TDT; terrestrial dynamical time; terrestrial time; TT

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Palau; Republic of Palau; TT

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:

A country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Federated States of Micronesia; Micronesia; TT

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)