Noun: meantime 'meen,tIm
- The time between one event, process, or period and another
"In the meantime, we'll continue with our current plans";
- interim, meanwhile, lag
- During the intervening time
"meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified";
- meanwhile, in the meantime
- (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