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Noun: meantime  'meen,tIm
  1. The time between one event, process, or period and another
    "In the meantime, we'll continue with our current plans";
    - interim, meanwhile, lag
Adverb: meantime  'meen,tIm
  1. During the intervening time
    "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified";
    - meanwhile, in the meantime
Noun: mean time  meen tIm
  1. (astronomy) time based on the motion of the mean sun (an imaginary sun moving uniformly along the celestial equator)
    "Greenwich Mean Time is based on mean solar time";
    - mean solar time

Derived forms: mean times, meantimes

Type of: interval, time interval, time unit, unit of time

Encyclopedia: Meantime

Mean time