Definitions for Hours
hours

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. hoursnoun

   a period of time assigned for work

   "they work long hours"

2. hoursnoun

   an indefinite period of time

   "they talked for hours"

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1. 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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1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hours

   goddess of the seasons, or of the hours of the day

2. Etymology: [A translation of L. Horae (Gr. ). See Hour.]

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1. 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  

Matched Categories

1. • Time Period
   • Work Time

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Hours' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #524

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Hours' in Written Corpus Frequency: #475

Anagrams for Hours »

1. Horus

How to pronounce Hours?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Hours in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Hours in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Hours in a Sentence

1. Mark Thomas:

   There remains a need for a proactive, permanent security presence in the area during the hours of darkness.

2. Pierre Trudeau:

   For the past 10 years Stephen Harper has ignored the people who do most of the heavy lifting in our economy, the people who work longer and longer hours for an ever shrinking piece of the pies.

3. Allison Jean:

   My life has not been the same, it's just been like a roller coaster.Guyger, who is white, testified that after working long hours on September 6, 2018, she returned to her Dallas County apartment complex. In uniform but off duty, she approached what she thought was her apartment. She noticed the door was partially open, saw a man inside who she believed to be an intruder, and fired her service weapon, killing him.How Botham Jeans mother is preparing to face the former police officer who killed her sonIn fact, she was at the apartment directly above hers -- which belonged to the 26-year-old Jean, who was black. Prosecutors said Jean had been on the couch in his shorts, watching TV and eating vanilla ice cream when Guyger walked in.Read MoreJurors deliberated for less than 24 hours before reaching the verdict. Guyger was booked into the North Tower Detention Center in Dallas Tuesday afternoon, according to the county website.Though the topic of race did not figure prominently in the trial itself, outside the courtroom, Jean's case had became a focal point in the national conversation on policing and the threat of violence people of color face in daily life.After the verdict, S. Lee Merritt, an attorney for Jean's family, called the murder conviction a.

4. Mohamed Elmessiry:

   These are practices associated with the darkest hours of Mubarak’s rule if not worse. Egypt's security forces cannot run roughshod over detainees' rights like this.

5. Randall Irmis:

   Volunteers are involved in every aspect of what we do, from field work and digging up specimens to preparing them, in 2014, volunteers provided 14,500 hours of work. It's a massive contribution. We couldn't do what we do without them. We really consider them key team members.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Hours
2. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hours
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Hours