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UTC

UTC proper noun: coordinated Universal Time, which is the international standard for civil time and the Internet. Also the initialism of Uniform Traffic Code.

Proper noun

UTC

  1. Coordinated Universal Time, which is the international standard for civil time and the Internet.
    Synonyms:
    GMT

Also used as

UTC is also the initialism of Uniform Traffic Code.

UTC is also the initialism of unable to contact.

Synonyms of UTC

Origin of UTC

A compromise initialism between English CUT (“Coordinated Universal Time”) and French TUC (“Temps Universel Coordonné”), unofficially giving “Universal Time Coordinated” and “Universel Temps Coordonné”.

Words formed from UTC

Phrases with UTC

Questions about UTC

What does UTC mean?
UTC means coordinated Universal Time, which is the international standard for civil time and the Internet.
What part of speech is UTC?
UTC is a proper noun.

Words near UTC in the dictionary

  1. utasi
  2. UTAUloid
  3. UTAUloids
  4. UTAUT
  5. utazi
  6. UTC
  7. UTC offset
  8. UTC offsets
  9. utch
  10. utchari
  11. utchy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: UTC (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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