Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

geocentric coordinate time

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.24 in modern English

Syllables: geo-cen-tric -co-or-di-nate -time
IPA

34

Scrabble Score

24

Letters

8

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

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.

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

Geocentric Co-ordinate Time (alternative)

Questions

What does geocentric coordinate time mean?: 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.

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