mean time

British  

noun

1. the time, at a particular place, measured in terms of the passage of the mean sun; the timescale is not precisely constant See mean solar day

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mean time Scientific  

1. Solar time as measured by the mean sun, resulting in equal 24-hour days throughout the year. If days were measured by the actual movement of the Sun, they would vary slightly in length at different times of the year due to differences in Earth's orbital speed and other factors. Mean time is the basis for standard clock time throughout most of the world.

2. See more at solar time universal time

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Example Sentences

Mean time, Joe Kennedy had resigned from SEC because he wanted to see more of his wife and nine children.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mean time Columbia Broadcasting officials who discovered what was going to happen only ten minutes before it began happening, had gone into a dither.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mean time the Lady, with his Leave, retir'd to give Orders concerning the Dinner.

From The Travels and Adventures of James Massey by Patot, Simon Tyssot de

Mean time I was too earnest for entring into the Service to be disheartened, and shutting my Eyes against the Improbability of Success, I renew'd my Sollicitation.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

Mean time a Roman will tell you, that the Carnival of Rome is the finest in the World.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von