Meaning of Zulu time | Babel Free
Definitions
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Alternative letter-case form of Zulu time. alt-of, uncountable
- Coordinated Universal Time.
Examples
“Aviation has long used Zulu time as the standard so that no matter⟳ which time zone you're in, you know⟳ what time it is.”
“What everyone knows is that between zero three fifteen and twelve seconds and thirteen seconds Zulu time, on October second, ’sixty-two, all the clocks stopped, the satellites went away, the star map changed, nineteen airliners and forty-six ships in transit ended up in terminal trouble⟳, and they found themselves transferred from a globe in the Milky Way galaxy to a disk which we figure⟳ is somewhere in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud.”
“The aviation standard is Zulu time, which is essentially the same as Greenwich mean⟳ time (GMT) and Universal Time Coordinated (UTC).”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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