ephemeris time

English

Noun

ephemeris time (uncountable)

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former standard astronomical time scale intended to overcome the drawbacks of irregularly fluctuating mean solar time, superseded in the 1970s.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

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