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# gmt

«gmt» in Mova's school dictionary: **GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time: the time at the Prime…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

abbreviation (GMT)

### meaning for a pupil

1) GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time: the time at the Prime Meridian in Greenwich, London, used as the starting point for the world's time zones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gmt/#m1)

2) The time used in the UK in winter (in summer the UK uses British Summer Time, one hour ahead of GMT). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gmt/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and time lessons GMT is the zero point for time zones: places to the east are ahead, places to the west are behind. Phrases: «GMT+1», «GMT-5», «at 9 pm GMT».

### examples

- GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gmt/#x1)
- New York is five hours behind GMT in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gmt/#x2)
- The match starts at 3 pm GMT. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gmt/#x3)
- In summer the UK clocks go forward to BST, one hour ahead of GMT. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gmt/#x4)
- Paris is at GMT+1 in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gmt/#x5)
- At the Royal Observatory in Greenwich you can stand on the line where GMT is measured. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gmt/#x6)
- If it is noon GMT, it is 7 am in New York (in winter). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gmt/#x7)

### note

An abbreviation, written in capitals: GMT. Not an English word on its own. Scientists today mostly use UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), which is almost the same. In maths problems: «GMT+3» means add 3 hours to GMT; «GMT−5» means take away 5 hours.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gmt» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gmt/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.