About The Word Hour

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Hour

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What's The Definition Of Hour?
[n] distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away"
[n] a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour" [n] clock time; "the hour is getting late" [n] a special and memorable period; "it was their finest hour" Synonyms | Synonyms for Hour: 60 minutes | hr | minute | time of day Related Terms | Find terms related to Hour: abundant year | academic year | annum | bell | bissextile year | calendar month | calendar year | century | common year | day | decade | decennary | decennium | defective year | fateful moment | fiscal year | fortnight | instant | interval | juncture | kairos | leap year | lunar month | lunar year | lunation | luster | lustrum | man-hour | microsecond | millennium | millisecond | minute | moment | moment of truth | month | moon | period | point | pregnant moment | psychological moment | quarter | quinquennium | regular year | season | second | semester | session | sidereal year | solar year | space | span | spell | stage | stretch | sun | term | the time | time | time lag | time of day | time signal | trimester | twelvemonth | week | weekday | while | year See Also | 15 minutes | 30 minutes | aurora | bedtime | break of day | break of the day | canonical hour | clock time | closing time | cockcrow | dawn | dawning | day | daybreak | dayspring | distance | dusk | early-morning hour | evenfall | fall | first light | gloaming | half-hour | happy hour | high noon | late-night hour | man hour | mealtime | mean solar day | midday | midnight | min | minute | morning | nightfall | none | noon | noonday | noontide | period | period of time | person hour | quarter | quarter-hour | rush hour | sidereal hour | small hours | solar day | sundown | sunrise | sunset | sunup | time | time period | time unit | twelve noon | twenty-four hours | twilight | unit of time | zero hour Hour In Webster's Dictionary \Hour\, n. [OE. hour, our, hore, ure, OF. hore, ore, ure,
F. heure, L. hora, fr. Gr. ?, orig., a definite space of
time, fixed by natural laws; hence, a season, the time of the
day, an hour. See {Year}, and cf. {Horologe}, {Horoscope}.]
1. The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.
2. 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?
3. Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or
occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the
hour.
Woman, . . . mine hour is not yet come. --John ii.
4.
This is your hour, and the power of darkness. --Luke
xxii. 53.
4. pl. (R. C. Ch.) Certain prayers to be repeated at stated
times of the day, as matins and vespers.
5. A measure of distance traveled.
Vilvoorden, three hours from Brussels. --J. P.
Peters.
{After hours}, after the time appointed for one's regular
labor.
{Canonical hours}. See under {Canonical}.
{Hour angle} (Astron.), the angle between the hour circle
passing through a given body, and the meridian of a place.
{Hour circle}. (Astron.)
(a) Any circle of the sphere passing through the two poles
of the equator; esp., one of the circles drawn on an
artificial globe through the poles, and dividing the
equator into spaces of 15[deg], or one hour, each.
(b) A circle upon an equatorial telescope lying parallel
to the plane of the earth's equator, and graduated in
hours and subdivisions of hours of right ascension.
(c) 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.
{Hour hand}, the hand or index which shows the hour on a
timepiece.
{Hour line}.
(a) (Astron.) A line indicating the hour.
(b) (Dialing) A line on which the shadow falls at a given
hour; the intersection of an hour circle which the
face of the dial.
{Hour plate}, the plate of a timepiece on which the hours are
marked; the dial. --Locke.
{Sidereal hour}, the twenty-fourth part of a sidereal day.
{Solar hour}, the twenty-fourth part of a solar day.
{The small hours}, the early hours of the morning, as one
o'clock, two o'clock, etc.
{To keep good hours}, to be regular in going to bed early.
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