Definition of "mean time" []

• Time measured with reference to the mean sun, giving equal 24-hour days throughout the year. (noun)

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• "In the mean time the passion Montraville had conceived for Julia Franklin daily encreased, and he saw evidently how much he was beloved by that amiable girl: he was likewise strongly prepossessed with an idea of Charlotte's perfidy."
• "In the mean time Montraville having received orders to return to New-York, arrived, and having still some remains of compassionate tenderness for the woman whom he regarded as brought to shame by himself, he went out in search of Belcour, to enquire whether she was safe, and whether the child lived."
• "Figure 5-2b shows that the crucial variable to predict is the number of adopters from the time of the prediction to the mean time of adoption, when a point of inflection occurs in the diffusion curve."