greenwich time
121Time in China — China spans across five different standard time zones, from UTC+05:00 in the west to UTC+09:00 in the east, yet since 1949 China has only had a single standard time at UTC+08:00. The time UTC+06:00 is also used unofficially in Xinjiang and Tibet …
122time — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Measurement of duration Nouns 1. time, duration; period, term, stage, space, span, spell, season; fourth dimension; the whole time; era, epoch, age, aeon; time of life; moment, instant, instantaneity,… …
123time — /taɪm / (say tuym) noun 1. the system of those relations which any event has to any other as past, present, or future; indefinite continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another. 2. duration regarded as belonging to the… …
124Greenwich Mean Time — noun Mean solar time at the Greenwich Meridian …
125Greenwich Mean Time — The arc of the equatorial measured westward intercepted between the Greenwich antimeridian and the meridian of the mean sun. Also called Zulu time …
126Greenwich sidereal time — The sidereal time elapsed since the transit of the Greenwich Meridian by the first point of the Aries …
127Greenwich Mean Time abbreviation GMT — noun (U) the time as measured at Greenwich in London …
128time zone — noun any of the 24 regions of the globe (loosely divided by longitude) throughout which the same standard time is used • Hypernyms: ↑zone, ↑geographical zone * * * noun : one of 24 longitudinal zones into which the world has been divided for… …
