atlantic time

1. 1.

   standard time in the 4th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 60th meridian; used in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and Bermuda and the Canadian Maritime Provinces

   SynonymsAtlantic Standard Time

   Broadercivil time

Questions about atlantic time

What does atlantic time mean?

atlantic time means "standard time in the 4th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 60th meridian; used in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands and Bermuda and the Canadian Maritime Provinces".

What is another word for atlantic time?

Close synonyms include Atlantic Standard Time. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is atlantic time a common word?

atlantic time is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.