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Meantime

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Meantime or mean time may refer to:

Time

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  • 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

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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
  • 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

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See also

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