Hour

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  • noun. One of the 24 equal parts of a day.
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  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The time of day indicated by a 12-hour clock.
  • noun. The time of day determined on a 24-hour basis.
  • noun. A unit of measure of longitude or right ascension, equal to 15° or 1/24 of a great circle.
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  • noun. A customary or fixed time.
  • noun. A set or customary period of time for a specified activity.
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  • noun. A particular time.
  • noun. A significant time.
  • noun. The present time.
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  • noun. The work that can be accomplished in an hour.
  • noun. The distance that can be traveled in an hour.
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  • noun. A single session of a school day or class.
  • noun. A credit hour.
  • noun. The canonical hours.
  • idiom. (long hours) A longer than usual or customary period of time for a given activity.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A particular time; a fixed or appointed time; a set season: as, the hour of death.
  • noun. The time marked or indicated by a timepiece; the particular time of day: as, what is the hour? at what hour shall we meet?
  • noun. The twenty-fourth part of a civil day, or the twelfth part of a natural day or night.
  • noun. plural Set times of prayer; the canonical hours (which see, under canonical).
  • noun. The offices or services prescribed for the canonical hours, or a book containing them. See book of hours, below.
  • noun. In Greek myth, one of the Horæ or Hours, the goddesses of the seasons and guardians of the gates of heaven.
  • noun. The hour reckoned from sunrise as the beginning of the day.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.
  • noun. 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?
  • noun. Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion
  • noun. Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers.
  • noun. A measure of distance traveled.
  • noun. after the time appointed for one's regular labor.
  • noun. See under Canonical.
  • noun. the angle between the hour circle passing through a given body, and the meridian of a place.
  • noun. A small brass circle attached to the north pole of an artificial globe, and divided into twenty-four parts or hours. It is used to mark differences of time in working problems on the globe.
  • noun. the hand or index which shows the hour on a timepiece.
  • noun. A line on which the shadow falls at a given hour; the intersection of an hour circle which the face of the dial.
  • noun. the plate of a timepiece on which the hours are marked; the dial.
  • noun. the twenty-fourth part of a sidereal day.
  • noun. the twenty-fourth part of a solar day.
  • noun. the early hours of the morning, as one o'clock, two o'clock, etc.
  • noun. to be regular in going to bed early.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
  • noun. A season, moment, time or stound.
  • noun. The time.
  • noun. Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
  • Word Usage
    "You should do an hour of the show each time instead of just half hour*"
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