MEAN TIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mean time mean? 

• MEAN TIME (noun)
  The noun MEAN TIME has 1 sense:

1. (astronomy) time based on the motion of the mean sun (an imaginary sun moving uniformly along the celestial equator)

  Familiarity information: MEAN TIME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEAN TIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(astronomy) time based on the motion of the mean sun (an imaginary sun moving uniformly along the celestial equator)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

mean solar time; mean time

Hypernyms ("mean time" is a kind of...):

time unit; unit of time (a unit for measuring time periods)

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)

 Context examples 

In the mean time I worked on, and my labour was already considerably advanced.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In the mean time, I here conclude the second part of my unfortunate voyages.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In the mean time Sir Lothian Hume had come bustling up to the Honourable Berkeley Craven, who was still standing near our curricle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the mean time, till all these alterations could be made from the savings of an income of five hundred a-year by a woman who never saved in her life, they were wise enough to be contented with the house as it was; and each of them was busy in arranging their particular concerns, and endeavoring, by placing around them books and other possessions, to form themselves a home.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She longed to see Mrs. Phillips, the Lucases, and all their other neighbours, and to hear herself called Mrs. Wickham by each of them; and in the mean time, she went after dinner to show her ring, and boast of being married, to Mrs. Hill and the two housemaids.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

In the mean time, I felt at least forty more of the same kind (as I conjectured) following the first.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In the mean time they formed up in a line of sentinels, presenting under their row of white hats every type of fighting face, from the fresh boyish countenances of Tom Belcher, Jones, and the other younger recruits, to the scarred and mutilated visages of the veteran bruisers.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Although I intend to leave the description of this empire to a particular treatise, yet, in the mean time, I am content to gratify the curious reader with some general ideas.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The coach-house had in the mean time been cleared; Berks with many curses had staggered at last to his feet, and had gone off in company with two other bruisers, while Jem Belcher alone remained chatting very earnestly with my uncle.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I could, with great pleasure, enlarge further upon the manners and virtues of this excellent people; but intending in a short time to publish a volume by itself, expressly upon that subject, I refer the reader thither; and, in the mean time, proceed to relate my own sad catastrophe.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)