military time

[ mil-i-ter-ee tahym ]

noun

1. Military. time as reckoned over 24 hours, in which hours in the day are numbered from 0 to 24: in speech, often followed by hundred when the time is on the hour, and preceded by zero when the hour is a single digit:

   We leave at five in the morning or, in military time, zero five hundred.

   The message came through at 17:30 military time.

2. twenty-four-hour clock ( def ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of military time¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

In the feudal and military time, the writer ranked below the fighter, and the skill of learning below the prowess of arms.

From Project Gutenberg