"Zulu time" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the name for the letter Z in the ICAO spelling alphabet, a reference to the equivalent nautical time zone (GMT), which has been denoted by a Z since about 1950. See list of military time zones.",
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      "expansion": "Zulu time (uncountable)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Carol Pollard, Reynaldo Anzaldua, Computer Forensics For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, page 208",
          "text": "Aviation has long used Zulu time as the standard so that no matter which time zone you're in, you know what time it is.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Charles Stross, Wireless, Penguin",
          "text": "What everyone knows is that between zero three fifteen and twelve seconds and thirteen seconds Zulu time, on October second, ’sixty-two, all the clocks stopped, the satellites went away, the star map changed, nineteen airliners and forty-six ships in transit ended up in terminal trouble, and they found themselves transferred from a globe in the Milky Way galaxy to a disk which we figure is somewhere in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Jeff Van West, Kevin Lane-Cummings, Microsoft Flight Simulator X For Pilots: Real World Training, John Wiley & Sons, page 101",
          "text": "The aviation standard is Zulu time, which is essentially the same as Greenwich mean time (GMT) and Universal Time Coordinated (UTC).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Coordinated Universal Time."
      ],
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          "Coordinated Universal Time",
          "Coordinated Universal Time"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(originally aviation or military) Coordinated Universal Time."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "military time"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Z time"
        },
        {
          "word": "ZULU time"
        },
        {
          "word": "zulu time"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
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    }
  ],
  "word": "Zulu time"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From the name for the letter Z in the ICAO spelling alphabet, a reference to the equivalent nautical time zone (GMT), which has been denoted by a Z since about 1950. See list of military time zones.",
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "Zulu time (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "military time"
    }
  ],
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        {
          "ref": "2008, Carol Pollard, Reynaldo Anzaldua, Computer Forensics For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, page 208",
          "text": "Aviation has long used Zulu time as the standard so that no matter which time zone you're in, you know what time it is.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Charles Stross, Wireless, Penguin",
          "text": "What everyone knows is that between zero three fifteen and twelve seconds and thirteen seconds Zulu time, on October second, ’sixty-two, all the clocks stopped, the satellites went away, the star map changed, nineteen airliners and forty-six ships in transit ended up in terminal trouble, and they found themselves transferred from a globe in the Milky Way galaxy to a disk which we figure is somewhere in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2012, Jeff Van West, Kevin Lane-Cummings, Microsoft Flight Simulator X For Pilots: Real World Training, John Wiley & Sons, page 101",
          "text": "The aviation standard is Zulu time, which is essentially the same as Greenwich mean time (GMT) and Universal Time Coordinated (UTC).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Coordinated Universal Time."
      ],
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        ],
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          "Coordinated Universal Time"
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        "(originally aviation or military) Coordinated Universal Time."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "Z time"
    },
    {
      "word": "ZULU time"
    },
    {
      "word": "zulu time"
    }
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  "word": "Zulu time"
}