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Meaning of ephemeris time

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ephemeris time

noun

Definitions

  1. A former standard astronomical time scale intended to overcome the drawbacks of irregularly fluctuating mean solar time, superseded in the 1970s.

  2. A modern relativistic-coordinate time scale.

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ephemeris%20time

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tdtttterrestrial dynamical timeterrestrial timeephemerissidereal timecivil timenonagesimal