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Dear experts,

Should we strictly differentiate between MEAN TIME and MEANTIME?

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Yuri
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Meantime is one word, as in "in the meantime," meaning "meanwhile."

The only occurrence of "mean" + "time" as two words that I can think of would be in Greenwich Mean Time.

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