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    STANDARD TIME

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The official time in a local region (adjusted for location around the Earth); established by law or customplay

    Synonyms:

    civil time; local time; standard time

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

    Hypernyms ("standard time" is a kind of...):

    time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "standard time"):

    Atlantic Standard Time; Atlantic Time (standard time in the 4th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 60th meridian; used in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and Bermuda and the Canadian Maritime Provinces)

    Eastern Standard Time; Eastern Time; EST (standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United States)

    Central Standard Time; Central Time; CST (standard time in the 6th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian; used in the central United States)

    Mountain Standard Time; Mountain Time; MST (standard time in the 7th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 105th meridian west; used in the mountain states of the United States)

    Pacific Standard Time; Pacific Time; PST (standard time in the 8th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 120th meridian west; used in far western states of the United States)

    Alaska Standard Time; Yukon Time (standard time in the 9th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 135th meridian west; used in Hawaii and most of Alaska)

    Hawaii Standard Time; Hawaii Time (standard time in the 10th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 150th meridian west; used in Hawaii and the western Aleutian Islands)

    Bering Standard Time; Bering Time (standard time in the 11th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 165th meridian west; used in the Midway Islands)

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