English Explanatory Dictionary

ephemeris time

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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former standard astronomical time scale intended to overcome the drawbacks of irregularly fluctuating mean solar time, superseded in the 1970s.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

Word forms

ephemeris time
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