Meantime

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Meantime or mean time may refer to:

Contents 1 Time 2 Entertainment 3 Engineering and mechanics 4 Business

[edit] 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.

[edit] Entertainment

• Meantime (film), the 1984 film by Mike Leigh
• Meantime, a canceled video game
• Meantime (album), the second album and major-label debut by Helmet, released in 1992
• "Meantime," a song by The Futureheads from their album The Futureheads

[edit] 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

[edit] Business

• Meantime Brewing, a small brewer of speciality beers.