Hour

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One of the 24 equal parts of a day.
  • n. One of the points on a timepiece marking off 12 or 24 successive intervals of 60 minutes, from midnight to noon and noon to midnight or from midnight to midnight.
  • n. The time of day indicated by a 12-hour clock.
  • n. The time of day determined on a 24-hour basis: 1730 hours is 5:30 P.M.
  • n. A unit of measure of longitude or right ascension, equal to 15° or 1/24 of a great circle.
  • n. A customary or fixed time: the dinner hour.
  • n. A set period of time for a specified activity: banking hours.
  • n. A particular time: their hour of need.
  • n. A significant time: Her hour had come.
  • n. The present time: the man of the hour.
  • n. The work that can be accomplished in an hour.
  • n. The distance that can be traveled in an hour.
  • n. A single session of a school day or class.
  • n. A credit hour.
  • n. Ecclesiastical The canonical hours.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
  • n. A season, moment, time or stound.
  • n. The time.
  • n. Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.
  • n. The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At what hour shall we meet?
  • n. Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion
  • n. Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers.
  • n. A measure of distance traveled.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A particular time; a fixed or appointed time; a set season: as, the hour of death.
  • n. The time marked or indicated by a timepiece; the particular time of day: as, what is the hour? at what hour shall we meet?
  • n. The twenty-fourth part of a civil day, or the twelfth part of a natural day or night.
  • n. plural Set times of prayer; the canonical hours (which see, under canonical).
  • n. The offices or services prescribed for the canonical hours, or a book containing them. See book of hours, below.
  • n. In Greek myth, one of the Horæ or Hours, the goddesses of the seasons and guardians of the gates of heaven.
  • n. The hour reckoned from sunrise as the beginning of the day.
  • n. In astronomy and geography, an angular measure of right ascension or longitude, being the twenty-fourth part of a great circle of the sphere, or fifteen degrees.
  • n. One hour in a shop. In many technical schools students are required to spend a certain number of hours in workshops. These are called shop-hours, to distinguish them from the hours spent in the recitation-room.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
  • n. distance measured by the time taken to cover it
  • n. a special and memorable period
  • n. clock time
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