Meantime

Meantime

Meantime or mean time may refer to:

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Time

  • Greenwich Mean Time, the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in England: often used to refer to Coordinated Universal Time
  • Local mean time, a form of solar time that corrects the variations of local apparent time
  • Washington mean time, the time at the meridian through the center of the old dome atop the main building at the old US Naval Observatory at Washington, D.C., U.S.A.

Entertainment

Engineering and mechanics

  • Mean time between coincidences, the reciprocal of the average frequency of dangerous coincidences: used in safety engineering
  • Mean time between failure, the "average" time between failures, the reciprocal of the failure rate in the special case when failure rate is constant
  • Mean time between outages, the mean time between equipment failures that result in loss of system continuity or unacceptable degradation
  • Mean time to recovery, the average time that a device will take to recover from a non-terminal failure
  • Mean free time, the average time between collisions between interacting particles

Business

  • Meantime Brewing, a small brewer of speciality beers.

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  • meantime — meantime, meanwhile 1. As a solitary adverb, meantime has largely given way to meanwhile, but is still occasionally found: • Meantime, melt the remaining butter in a saucepan Delia Smith, 1978. It is most often used in the phrase in the meantime …   Modern English usage

  • Meantime — est un film britannique réalisé en 1984 par Mike Leigh et produit pour la télévision par Central Television pour Channel 4. Sommaire 1 Synopsis 2 Distribution 3 Récompenses et nominations …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Meantime — Mean time , Meanwhile Mean while , n. The intervening time; as, in the meantime (or mean time). [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • meantime — ► ADVERB (also in the meantime) ▪ meanwhile …   English terms dictionary

  • meantime — [mēn′hwīl΄mēn′tīm΄] adv. 1. in or during the intervening time 2. at the same time n. the intervening time: Also, and for MEANTIME adv. now usually, meanwhile [mēn′hwīl΄] …   English World dictionary

  • Meantime — Mean time , Meanwhile Mean while , adv. In the intervening time; during the interval. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • meantime — index ad interim Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • meantime — (n.) also mean time, mid 14c., from MEAN (Cf. mean) (adj.2) middle, intermediate + TIME (Cf. time) (n.). Late 14c. as an adverb …   Etymology dictionary

  • meantime — [n/adv] in the intervening time at the same time, concurrently, for now, for the duration, for the moment, for then, interim, interregnum, interruption, interval, in the interim, in the interval, in the meanwhile, meanwhile, recess,… …   New thesaurus

  • meantime — [[t]mi͟ːntaɪm[/t]] 1) PHR with cl In the meantime or meantime means in the period of time between two events. Eventually your child will leave home to lead her own life as a fully independent adult, but in the meantime she relies on your support …   English dictionary

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