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mean time, mean solar time the time, at a particular place, measured in terms of the passage of the mean sun; the timescale is not precisely constant mean time [′mēn ′tīm] (astronomy) Time based on the rotation of the earth relative to the mean sun. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| His book has some good invention in it, it presents us with something but brings nothing to a conclusion: we must wait for the Second Part it promises: perhaps with amendment it may succeed in winning the full measure of grace that is now denied it; and in the mean time do you, senor gossip, keep it shut up in your own quarters. The scheme came to nothing finally, but in the mean time we escaped from the little city and its sorrowful associations of fruitless labor, and had a year in the country, which was blest, at least to us children, by sojourn in a log-cabin, while a house was building for us. At one minute past seven, Greenwich mean time, we may be off together. |
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