English Explanatory Dictionary

Geocentric Coordinate Time

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A coordinate time standard intended to be used as the independent variable of time for all calculations pertaining to precession, nutation, the Moon, and artificial satellites of the Earth, equivalent to the proper time experienced by a clock at rest in a coordinate frame co-moving with the center of the Earth.

Word forms

Geocentric Coordinate Time Geocentric Co-ordinate Time
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