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civil time

civil time noun: mean solar time reckoned from midnight by adding twelve hours.

Noun

civil time (uncountable)

  1. Mean solar time reckoned from midnight by adding twelve hours.
    • The civil time in a certain place is the mean solar time plus twelve hours which are added so that the day begins at midnight and not at midday. Universal time is the civil time of the international meridian.2012, Pierre Léna, Daniel Rouan, François Lebrun, François Mignard, Didier Pelat, Observational Astrophysics, Springer Science & Business, →ISBN, page 161
  2. (modern usage) The statutory time as designated by civilian authorities, generally a standard time in a time zone at a fixed offset from UTC.

civil time meaning in Tamil

civil time in Tamil

அமல் நேரம், நடைமுறை நேரம்

Questions about civil time

What does civil time mean?
Civil time means mean solar time reckoned from midnight by adding twelve hours.
What is civil time in Tamil?
Civil time in Tamil is அமல் நேரம், நடைமுறை நேரம். See Civil time meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is civil time?
Civil time is a noun.

Words near civil time in the dictionary

  1. civil society
  2. civil status
  3. civil statuses
  4. civil suit
  5. civil suits
  6. civil time
  7. civil tongue
  8. civil tongues
  9. civil trial
  10. civil trials
  11. civil twilight

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Adapted from Wiktionary: civil time (page history and authors); civil time (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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