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.

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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?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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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. John Stankey:

   Richard Plepler need hours a day, it's not hours a week, and it's not hours a month. Richard Plepler need hours a day. You are competing with devices that sit in people's hands that capture their attention every 15 minutes.

2. Sam Ewig:

   It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

3. Robert Frost:

   By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

4. Abbas Guclu:

   It is not possible to control the youth of today, if they spend three or five hours at school, they spend eight or 10 hours in front of the Internet, the social media or television. For every few hours of religious education they spend hundreds of hours elsewhere, being bombarded by other things.

5. John Cohen:

   Have you seen that show '48 Hours?' i figured if we didn't have it back in 48 hours, we were not getting the car back. The first 24 hours is crucial. It was definitely right at 24 hours when we got the car back.

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