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Definition of Atlantic time
1. Noun. 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.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Atlantic Time
Literary usage of Atlantic time
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of American Pastimes: Containing a History of the Principal Base by Charles A. Peverelly (1866)
"Atlantic, and Atlantic of Jamaica, LI, on the ground of the latter; score, 38 to
4, in favor of the Atlantic; time, 2.15. August 8. ..."
2. Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the University of Upsala by Uppsala universitet Geologiska institutionen (1908)
"... would have spread as far as to Gotland during the warm and damp atlantic time.
... plants have spread during the cold and damp sub-atlantic time (see p. ..."
3. Our World: Or, First Lessons in Geography for Children by Mary Lucy Hall (1870)
"... time Atlantic. Time Amazon is otme of time largest rivers in time world, ...
miles of forest hand, into time Atlantic. Time La Phata is farther ..."
4. Train Rule Examinations Made Easy: A Complete Treatise for Train Rule by George Elmer Collingwood (1911)
"Between Atlantic or Intercolonial and Eastern Sections Campbellton, NB (Atlantic
time is used locally.) atlantic time—Intercolonial Ry. ..."
5. The Practical Arithmetic: Oral and Written by Frank H. Hall (1907)
"When it is noon by "Atlantic" time, what is the hour of the day by "Eastern" ...
By "Atlantic" time? t. A man traveling from Philadelphia to Chicago would ..."
6. ABC Pathfinder Railway Guideby New England Railway Publishing Company, New-England Association of Railroad Superintendents, A. E. Newton, George K. Snow, C. H. Bradlee, George S. Chase, N. E. Weeks by New England Railway Publishing Company, New-England Association of Railroad Superintendents, A. E. Newton, George K. Snow, C. H. Bradlee, George S. Chase, N. E. Weeks (1907)
"atlantic time east of Vanceboro. Eastern Time east of Fort William and Detroit.
... At 1 N FH, atlantic time, at St. John, N. В., It Is и оо ни at Montreal, ..."
7. The Territory of Florida, Or, Sketches of the Topography, Civil and Natural by John Lee Williams (1837)
"Whether it will be as unhealthy as the deeper and more extensive marshes of the
Atlantic, time and experience must determine. It is hoped that the proximity ..."
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