a small island republic on the Tuvalu islands; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it withdrew in 1975 and became independent of the United Kingdom in 1978 | a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986 |
a group of coral islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii | 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 |