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English

UTC

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Meaning

  1. Initialism of unable to contact.
  2. Coordinated Universal Time, which is the international standard for civil time and the Internet.
  3. Initialism of Uniform Traffic Code.

Etymology / origin

A compromise initialism between English CUT (“Coordinated Universal Time”) and French TUC (“Temps Universel Coordonné”), unofficially giving “Universal Time Coordinated” and “Universel Temps Coordonné”.

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