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hours
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Princeton's WordNet
hoursnoun
a period of time assigned for work
"they work long hours"
hoursnoun
an indefinite period of time
"they talked for hours"
Wikipedia
hours
An hour (symbol: h; also abbreviated hr) is a unit of time conventionally reckoned as 1⁄24 of a day and scientifically reckoned between 3,599 and 3,601 seconds, depending on the speed of Earth's rotation. There are 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day. The hour was initially established in the ancient Near East as a variable measure of 1⁄12 of the night or daytime. Such seasonal, temporal, or unequal hours varied by season and latitude. Equal or equinoctial hours were taken as 1⁄24 of the day as measured from noon to noon; the minor seasonal variations of this unit were eventually smoothed by making it 1⁄24 of the mean solar day. Since this unit was not constant due to long term variations in the Earth's rotation, the hour was finally separated from the Earth's rotation and defined in terms of the atomic or physical second. In the modern metric system, hours are an accepted unit of time defined as 3,600 atomic seconds. However, on rare occasions an hour may incorporate a positive or negative leap second, making it last 3,599 or 3,601 seconds, in order to keep it within 0.9 seconds of UT1, which is based on measurements of the mean solar day.
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hours
Hours refers to a unit of time measurement that is commonly used to quantify the duration of an activity or event. In the context of a day, an hour consists of 60 minutes, and there are typically 24 hours in a day. It is used to schedule and plan specific periods of time, appointments, or work shifts.
Webster Dictionary
Hours
goddess of the seasons, or of the hours of the day
Etymology: [A translation of L. Horae (Gr. ). See Hour.]
Editors Contribution
hours
Plural form of the word hour.
There are twenty four hours in an earthly time structure on planet Earth.
Submitted by MaryC on April 24, 2016
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of hours in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of hours in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of hours in a Sentence
Students are aware of the cheating scandals and nervous that their scores will be canceled after spending so many hours preparing for the examination.
For an hourly fee, these people can handle tasks quickly that it might take you hours to do - scheduling doctor's appointments, handling medical payments and dealing with insurance, helping find a good nursing home or in-home care, spending this money may seem expensive, but it's less than putting someone's career on hold to become a full-time caregiver.
The movie ended in my original script with Red on the bus going off to this uncertain and hopeful future, which is how the novella ends, but the folks at (production company) Castle Rock thought after putting the audience through two-plus hours of hell, we might owe them a union at the end.
I commend the agents of the Enforcement Division, particularly Agent Dan Nuqui, for ensuring that the public trust in the gaming industry remains strong by spending countless hours over two weeks to ensure that a patron is awarded winnings owed to him.
Bright moon phases are bad for meteor showers as they wash out the dimmer meteors, a full or almost full moon dominates one part of the sky, making that part undesirable for observing meteors. The full moon also lasts the entire night, leaving no hours of complete darkness, which is preferred.
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