mean-time
31mean time — noun (astronomy) time based on the motion of the mean sun (an imaginary sun moving uniformly along the celestial equator) • Syn: ↑mean solar time • Topics: ↑astronomy, ↑uranology • Hypernyms: ↑time unit, ↑ …
32mean time — noun Date: 1751 time that is based on the motion of the mean sun called also mean solar time …
33mean time — noun Astronomy another term for mean solar time …
34mean time — standard time according to the time at Greenwich (England) …
35mean time between failures — A statistical measure of the average length of time between the successive failures of equipment or a system. For the specified time interval, the total operating time of the population of material divided by the total number of failures within… …
36mean time between failures — (MTBF) The average length of time during which a system or component operates without fault …
37mean time to repair — The average time elaspe between the discovery of a fault in a system or component and its correction …
38Greenwich Mean Time — (GMT) is a term originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. It is now often used to refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when this is viewed as a time zone, although strictly UTC is an atomic time… …
39Washington mean time — was the time at the meridian through the center of the old dome atop the main building at the old US Naval Observatory at Washington, D.C. This Washington meridian was defined on 28 September 1850 by the United States Congress (9 Stat. 515). The… …
40Local mean time — is a form of solar time that corrects the variations of local apparent time, forming a uniform time scale at a specific longitude. Its uniformity depends only on the accuracy of the clocks used to measure it.Local mean time was used from the… …
