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Greenwich time

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Greenwich time
n.
See universal time.
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Noun1.Greenwich timeGreenwich Time - the local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England; it is the same everywhere
GMT, Greenwich Mean Time, universal time, UT, UT1
time - the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
coordinated universal time, UTC - Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds


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The silence was profound; but it seemed full of noiseless phantoms, of things sorrowful, shadowy, and mute, in whose invisible presence the firm, pulsating beat of the two ship's chronometers ticking off steadily the seconds of Greenwich Time seemed to me a protection and a relief.
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"At nine o'clock every night, Greenwich time," said Wemmick, "the gun fires.
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The Astronomer Royal has fixed the Greenwich time at twelve past six.
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