ephemeris time love

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  • noun astronomy A former standard astronomical time scale intended to overcome the drawbacks of irregularly fluctuating mean solar time, superseded in the 1970s.
  • noun astronomy A modern relativistic-coordinate time scale.

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  • noun (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

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