Meantime or mean time may refer to:
Time
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Greenwich Mean Time
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the Local mean time, mean solar 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, i ...
, 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 Solar time#Apparent solar time, local apparent time, forming a uniform time scale at a specific longitude. This measurement of time was used for everyday use during the ...
, 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 Congress ...
, 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
The Beatsteaks are a German rock band from Berlin, formed in 1995.
History
Peter Baumann, Stefan Hircher, Alexander Rosswaag and Bernd Kurtzke founded Beatsteaks in 1995. Shortly afterwards, Arnim Teutoburg-Weiß joined the band as singer and ...
*"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, resigning in 2019. She was the first ...
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''Meantime'' (EP), a 2012 EP by Kwes
Engineering and mechanics
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Mean time between failure
Mean time between failures (MTBF) is the predicted elapsed time between inherent failures of a mechanical or electronic system during normal system operation. MTBF can be calculated as the arithmetic mean (average) time between failures of a syste ...
, 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, 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) tp://download.intel.com/design/servers/ISM/docs/317987.pdf INTEL call for Mean-Time-to-''Repair'' on page 4 left. is the average time that a device will take to recover from any failure. Examples of such devices ran ...
, the average time that a device will take to recover from a non-terminal failure
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Mean free time
Molecules in a fluid constantly collide with each other. The mean free time for a molecule in a fluid is the average time between collisions. The mean free path of the molecule is the product of the average speed and the mean free time. These conce ...
, the average time between collisions between interacting particles
Business
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Meantime Brewing
Meantime Brewing Company is a brewery based in Greenwich, London, England, and owned by Japan's Asahi Breweries .
The company was founded by Alastair Hook in 1999, and was purchased by SABMiller in May 2015. As part of the agreements made with r ...
, a craft brewer of speciality beers
See also
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In the Meantime (disambiguation)
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