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Meaning of Zulu time | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Zulu time.
    alt-of, uncountable
  2. Coordinated Universal Time.
    uncountable

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.

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