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Alternative form of African time. [(uncountable, sometimes derogatory, slang) A notional system of time which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to Africans, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be leisurely, not rigorous about scheduling, and often tardy.]
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(uncountable, sometimes derogatory, slang) A notional system of time which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to Africans, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be leisurely, not rigorous about scheduling, and often tardy.
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true solar time as shown by a carefully adjusted sundial
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(uncountable, sometimes derogatory, slang) A notional system of time which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to Caribbeans, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be leisurely, not rigorous about scheduling, and often tardy.
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(US, dated derogatory slang, sometimes reclaimed) A notional system of time (or time zone) which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to African Americans, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be tardy.
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The standard time as kept on the planet Mars. It is generally equivalent to Airy Mean Time, which is determined on the prime meridian of Mars, that passes through the crater Airy-0.
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A high-precision atomic time standard.
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(Philippines, sometimes derogatory, slang) A notional system of time which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to Filipinos, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be leisurely, not rigorous about scheduling, and often tardy.
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(Britain) 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.
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(uncountable, sometimes derogatory, slang) A notional system of time which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to Hawaiians, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be leisurely, not rigorous about scheduling, and often tardy.
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(Americas, uncountable, sometimes derogatory, slang) A notional system of time which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to Indians (Native Americans), and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be leisurely, not rigorous about scheduling, and often tardy.
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(uncountable, sometimes derogatory, slang) A notional system of time which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to islanders (e.g. Hawaiians or Fijians), and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be leisurely, not rigorous about scheduling, and often tardy.
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(uncountable, sometimes derogatory, slang) A notional system of time which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to Jamaicans, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be leisurely, not rigorous about scheduling, and often tardy.
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(uncountable, sometimes derogatory, slang) A notional system of time or time zone which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to Jewish people, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be leisurely, not rigorous about scheduling, and often tardy.
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(uncountable, sometimes derogatory, slang) A notional system of time which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to Kenyans, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be leisurely, not rigorous about scheduling, and often tardy.
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The official time in a particular region or time zone.
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(uncountable, sometimes derogatory, slang) A notional system of time which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to Micronesians, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be leisurely, not rigorous about scheduling, and often tardy.
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(uncountable, sometimes derogatory, slang) A notional system of time which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to Nigerians, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be leisurely, not rigorous about scheduling, and often tardy.
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(slang, sometimes derogatory) A notional system of time which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to Palauans, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be leisurely, not rigorous about scheduling, and often tardy.
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(uncountable, sometimes derogatory, slang) A notional system of time which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to Puerto Ricans, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be leisurely, not rigorous about scheduling, and often tardy.
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(uncountable, sometimes derogatory, slang) A notional system of time which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to Samoans, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be leisurely, not rigorous about scheduling, and often tardy.
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Time as measured by looking at the sky.
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Time as measured by synchronizing clocks in different geographical locations within a time zone to the same time, rather than using the local meridian, as in local mean time or solar time.
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The difference in clock time between two or more different time zones.
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A range of longitudes where a common standard time is used.
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Alternative form of time zone [A range of longitudes where a common standard time is used.]
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Alternative spelling of time zone (chiefly US) [A range of longitudes where a common standard time is used.]
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(uncountable, sometimes derogatory, slang) A notional system of time which others sometimes derogatorily ascribe to Tongans, and which they sometimes jocularly ascribe to themselves, to account for their supposed tendency to be leisurely, not rigorous about scheduling, and often tardy.
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A measure of time that conforms, within a close approximation, to the mean diurnal rotation of the Earth and serves as the basis of civil timekeeping.
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Alternative form of Unix time [A system for describing instants in time, defined as the number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), Thursday, 1 January 1970, not counting leap seconds, used in Unix and many other operating systems.]
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Alternative form of Yukon Standard Time [(obsolete) Alaska Standard Time]
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Alternative form of Zulu time [(originally aviation) Coordinated Universal Time.]
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Alternative letter-case form of Zulu time [(originally aviation) Coordinated Universal Time.]
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