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time zone

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of the 24 longitudinal divisions of the earth's surface in which a standard time is kept, the primary division being that bisected by the Greenwich meridian. Each zone is 15° of longitude in width, with local variations, and observes a clock time one hour earlier than the zone immediately to the east.

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  • noun A range of longitudes where a common standard time is used.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun any of the 24 regions of the globe (loosely divided by longitude) throughout which the same standard time is used

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synonyms (22)

Words with the same meaning

  1. Alaska time
  2. Atlantic time
  3. Central time
  4. Eastern time
  5. GMT
  6. Greenwich mean time
  7. Greenwich time
  8. Mountain time
  9. Yukon time
  10. apparent time
  11. civil time
  12. daylight-saving time
  13. fast time
  14. local time
  15. mean solar time
  16. mean time
  17. sidereal time
  18. slow time
  19. solar time
  20. standard time
  21. summer time
  22. zone time

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. geographical zone
  2. zone

cross-references (2)

Cross-references

  1. Greenwich Mean Time
  2. Zulu

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