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Mountain time
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noun
See under standard time.
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Also called Mountain Standard Time .
Origin of Mountain time
1880–85; Americanism
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How to use Mountain time in a sentence
The change from Central to Mountain time is made at this point, and the west-bound traveler sets his watch back one hour.
Wonderland; or Alaska and the Inside Passage|Lieut. Frederick SchwatkaThere you lose another hour, 'Mountain Time' extending as far as the ridge of the Rockies.
The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men|Francis William Rolt-Wheeler