mean time
Period between events
Mean time is time measured by the average position of the sun, smoothing out variations caused by Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt.
Clocks run on mean time rather than apparent solar time, which varies throughout the year.
Greenwich Mean Time is the standard reference.
The phrase in the mean time (or meantime) refers to an intervening period: In the mean time, we waited.
- averageArithmetic mean or ordinary
- intervalDuration between two points
- meanwhileDuring the intervening time
- ephemerisCelestial body position chart
- durationLength of existence
equinox · interregnum · period · meridian · timeframe · lag · medium · elapsed · span · clock · temporary · synchronization · UTC · precision · mode · GMT · calibration · standardization
- security metricsfalse positives, false negatives
- Incident Responseincident report, response team, escalation, alert, notification
- system reliabilityavailability, redundancy, uptime, downtime, failover
- timekeepingclock, watch, watches, clocks, calendar
- time unitssecond, minute, hour, seconds, day
- time zonesEST, PST, GMT, CST, MST
temporal significance
mean timeprime time
Evening TV's busiest window
crunch time · showtime · critical juncture · culmination · climax