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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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  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

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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. Monica Baldwin:

    I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.

  2. Alfie Kohn:

    Kids should have a chance to just be kids and do things they enjoy, particularly after spending six hours a day in school.

  3. Ohio Gov. John Kasich:

    And it's serving us well, but the credit goes to the leadership in Cleveland who have spoken with one voice saying protest, but no violence is acceptable in Cleveland. And the people of Cleveland should be proud of what's been happening here in the last 24 hours.

  4. Francesco Tomba:

    These days I don't have any time to read and I'm really looking forward to having hours and hours of 'reading time'.

  5. Gomez Cora:

    ( The 2015 Pan-American Games in) Toronto was perfect with all the athletes in a modern village but now it will be multiplied by five continents and other greats, seeing top basketball players, golfers,( sprinter) Usain Bolt with Gomez Cora little tray next to you in the meal queue, i'd be happy to stay there for two hours, you usually curse when a queue is long but I'd want it to be eternal and it's not a forced situation, it's natural and you're all there as equals.

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