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time zone

Word definitions for time zone in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. A range of longitudes where a common standard time is used. n. A range of longitudes where a common standard time is used.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Time Zone is a multi-disk graphical adventure game written and directed by Roberta Williams for the Apple II . Developed in 1981 and released in 1982 by On-Line Systems (later Sierra Entertainment ), the game was shipped with six double-sided floppy disks ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Adjustment will be speeded up if we can strengthen the time-cues in the new time zone . ▪ An hour later, the second time zone results should be coming in from the Mid-West. ▪ Like Rolex watches from a different time zone . ▪ ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
by 1885, from time (n.) + zone (n.). As in Britain and France, the movement to regulate time nationally came from the railroads.\n\nPrevious to 1883 the methods of measuring time in the United States were so varied and so numerous as to be ludicrous. There ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of the 24 regions of the globe (loosely divided by longitude) throughout which the same standard time is used

Usage examples of time zone.

It was the contrast with New Yorknot nakedness and starvation, but another time zone.

The training center worked on Switzerland's time zone which meant that I, and all other twins who were staying behind no matter where on.

If that signal arrives here at the predicted Earth time, then aside from the havoc the news will create among the few theoretical physicists whom we decide to let in on it we will really have our instantaneous communicator, and can include all of occupied space in the same time zone.

Not only the adjustment and the time zone and the temperature—.