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Princeton's WordNet

  1. hoursnoun

    a period of time assigned for work

    "they work long hours"

  2. hoursnoun

    an indefinite period of time

    "they talked for hours"

Wikipedia

  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 Dictionary

  1. Hours

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

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

Editors Contribution

  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  

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    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

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  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. Mike Pompeo:

    It is not possible that this decision, or my recommendation rather, to the President rather, was based on any effort to retaliate for any investigation that was going on, or is currently going on, because I simply don't know. I'm not briefed on it. I usually see these investigations in final draft form 24 hours, 48 hours before the IG is prepared to release them.

  2. Tim Allen:

    This [show] is improv for 12 hours a day and I'm out of my mind.

  3. Evelyn Blanck:

    Now we are watching the reaction of El Periódico. And since( police) also raided the newspaper's facilities and were there for more than 12 hours, we want to know if they took documents, we want to know if they touched the equipment. In other words, we are concerned about the security of the newsroom.

  4. Alex Agostini:

    > (CNN)People around the world are likely to lose 50 to 58 hours of sleep a year by 2099 due to global warming, a new study revealed.Researchers used wristbands with internal accelerometers to measure sleep duration and sleep timing in over 47,000 adults across 68 countries for an average of six months for a study published in the journal One Earth. Adults should get seven to nine hours of sleep, according to the National Sleep Foundation. The likelihood of getting less than seven hours of sleep increased by 3.5% if minimum outside nighttime temperatures exceeded 77 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius) compared with the baseline temperature of 41 to 50 degrees Fahrenheit (5 to 10 degrees Celsius), the study found.To bathe or not to bathe (often). That is the questionThe 3.5% sleep loss may initially look like a small number, but it adds up.

  5. Thomas Moore:

    With a stable design, mature requirements and an improved build process, we will reduce construction hours by 18 percent, lower the cost to build the ship by almost $1 billion in real terms compared to CVN 78 and meet the cost cap.

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