Meantime or mean time may refer to:
Time
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Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the local mean time at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight. At different times in the past, it has been calculated in different ways, including being ...
, the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in England: often used to refer to Coordinated Universal Time
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Local mean time
Local mean time (LMT) is a form of solar time that corrects the variations of local apparent time, forming a uniform time scale at a specific longitude. This measurement of time was used for everyday use during the 19th century before time zones ...
, a form of solar time that corrects the variations of local apparent time
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Washington Mean Time
Washington Mean Time was 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. This Washington meridian was defined on 28 September 1850 by the United States Congre ...
, 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
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''Meantime'' (film), the 1983 film by Mike Leigh
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''Meantime'' (video game), a cancelled video game
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''Meantime'' (album), the second album and major-label debut by Helmet, released in 1992
*"Meantime", a 2007 song by
Beatsteaks
*"Meantime", a song by The Futureheads from their album ''
The Futureheads
The Futureheads are an English post-punk band from Sunderland, formed in 2000. The band consists of Ross Millard (vocals and guitar), David "Jaff" Craig (vocals and bass guitar) and brothers Barry Hyde (vocals and guitar) and Dave Hyde (drums) ...
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*"Mean Time", a prize-winning poetry collection by British poet laureate
Carol Ann Duffy
Dame Carol Ann Duffy (born 23 December 1955) is a Scottish poet and playwright. She is a professor of contemporary poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was appointed Poet Laureate in May 2009, and her term expired in 2019. She wa ...
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''Meantime'' (EP), a 2012 EP by Kwes
Engineering and mechanics
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Mean time between failure, the "average" time between failures, the reciprocal of the failure rate in the special case when failure rate is constant
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Mean time between outages In a system the mean time between outages (MTBO) is the mean time
Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible process, irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the futur ...
, the mean time between equipment failures that result in loss of system continuity or unacceptable degradation
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Mean time to recovery
Mean time to recovery (MTTR) is the average time that a device will take to recover from any failure. Examples of such devices range from self-resetting fuses (where the MTTR would be very short, probably seconds), to whole systems which have t ...
, the average time that a device will take to recover from a non-terminal failure
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Mean free time, the average time between collisions between interacting particles
Business
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Meantime Brewing, a craft brewer of speciality beers
See also
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In the Meantime (disambiguation)
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Meanwhile (disambiguation)
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Mean (disambiguation)
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Time (disambiguation)
Time is the continued sequence of existence and events, and a fundamental quantity of measuring systems.
Time or times may also refer to:
Temporal measurement
* Time in physics, defined by its measurement
* Time standard, civil time specificat ...
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