Greenwich time

Greenwich time
noun see Greenwich mean time

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  • Greenwich Time Signal — The Greenwich Time Signal (GTS), popularly known as the pips, is a series of six short tones broadcast by many BBC radio stations at the end of each hour to mark the precise start of the following hour. First introduced in 1924, continued use of… …   Wikipedia

  • Greenwich Time Signal — Gráfica de los seis pitidos, The Pips. El Greenwich Time Signal (abreviado como GTS), popularmente conocido como The Pips[1] (Los pitidos), es una serie de tonos breves audibles que marcan el tiempo en las tran …   Wikipedia Español

  • Greenwich Time — noun the local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England; it is the same everywhere (Freq. 2) • Syn: ↑Greenwich Mean Time, ↑GMT, ↑universal time, ↑UT, ↑UT1 • Hypernyms: ↑time …   Useful english dictionary

  • Greenwich Time — the time as measured on the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England: used in England and as a standard of calculation elsewhere. Also called Greenwich Mean Time, Greenwich Civil Time, universal time, Universal Time. [1840 50] * * * …   Universalium

  • Greenwich Time — Green′wich Time n. hor the time as measured on the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England: used in England and as a standard of calculation elsewhere. Also called Green′wich Mean′ Time …   From formal English to slang

  • Greenwich Time — Green·wich Time || grenɪdÊ’ time at Greenwich (London) used as the basis for calculating standard times around the world …   English contemporary dictionary

  • Greenwich Time Signal — noun a time signal transmitted on radio by the BBC every hour and consisting of five short beeps followed by a longer one, with the longer one coinciding with the start of the hour. Syn: pip …   Wiktionary

  • Greenwich Mean Time — (GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. It is now often used to refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when this is viewed as a time zone, although strictly UTC is an atomic time… …   Wikipedia

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