Meantime

Meantime or mean time may refer to:

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

• Meantime (film), the 1983 film by Mike Leigh
• Meantime, a cancelled video game
• Meantime (album), the second album and major-label debut by Helmet, released in 1992 under Interscope Records
• "Meantime" (Beatsteaks song), the single by Beatsteaks released in 2007
• "Meantime", a song by The Futureheads from their album The Futureheads
• Meantime (band) , Power pop rock band formed on the Mornington Peninsula, Australia, in the early 1990s.

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.