an island republic on Nauru Island; phosphate exports support the economy | a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986 |
a small island in the central Pacific Ocean 2,800 miles to the southwest of Hawaii; in Micronesia to the west of the Gilbert Islands | a republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States |
| (astronomy) a measure of time defined by Earth's orbital motion; terrestrial time is mean solar time corrected for the irregularities of the Earth's motions |