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Geocentric Coordinate Time

Geocentric Coordinate Time proper noun: a coordinate time standard intended to be used as the independent variable of time for all calculations pertaining to precession, nutation, the Moon, and artificial satellites of the Earth, equivalent to the proper time experienced by a clock at rest in a coordinate frame co-moving with the center of the Earth.

Proper noun

Geocentric Coordinate Time

  1. A coordinate time standard intended to be used as the independent variable of time for all calculations pertaining to precession, nutation, the Moon, and artificial satellites of the Earth, equivalent to the proper time experienced by a clock at rest in a coordinate frame co-moving with the center of the Earth.
    • In some recent papers (for example: Ashby and Bertotti 1983, 1984) the satellite motion is treated in the local inertial geocentric reference frame with geocentric coordinate time being an independent argument.1983, Heinrich Karl Eichhorn, Robert Jay Leacock, editors, Astrometric Techniques: Proceedings of the 109th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held in Gainesville, Florida, U.S.A....

Forms of Geocentric Coordinate Time

alternative formGeocentric Co-ordinate Time

Questions about Geocentric Coordinate Time

What does Geocentric Coordinate Time mean?
Geocentric Coordinate Time means a coordinate time standard intended to be used as the independent variable of time for all calculations pertaining to precession, nutation, the Moon, and artificial satellites of the Earth, equivalent to the proper time experienced by a clock at rest in a coordinate frame co-moving with the center of the Earth.
What part of speech is Geocentric Coordinate Time?
Geocentric Coordinate Time is a proper noun.

Words near Geocentric Coordinate Time in the dictionary

  1. geocaulospheres
  2. geocell
  3. geocells
  4. geocentric
  5. Geocentric Co-ordinate Time
  6. Geocentric Coordinate Time
  7. geocentrical
  8. geocentrically
  9. geocentricism
  10. geocentricity
  11. geocentrick

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