Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mean_time

1 sense of mean time

Sense 1
mean time, mean solar time -- ((astronomy) time based on the motion of the mean sun (an imaginary sun moving uniformly along the celestial equator))
       => time unit, unit of time -- (a unit for measuring time periods)


1 sense of meantime

Sense 1
interim, meantime, meanwhile, lag -- (the time between one event, process, or period and another; "meanwhile the socialists are running the government")
       => time interval, interval -- (a definite length of time marked off by two instants)

Synonyms of adv mean_time

1 sense of meantime

Sense 1
meanwhile, meantime, in the meantime -- (during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified")