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?

1. Alex

   US English

   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

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   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. Mark Sanford:

   Too often in the wake of tragedies like this, advocates on both sides of the debate, use the debate towards their own end, moving to a large debate on gun control I don't think is what should come in the immediate aftermath, within 24 hours, of this tragedy taking place.

2. Nancy Pelosi:

   Everyone has all their analysis within hours of the election taking place, we have to analyze how this -- is it because of this, is it because of that. It's because of a number of things. But within 24 hours we don't have that analysis.

3. Uriel Kitron:

   And of course in today's world, you and I, along with any mosquito or virus, can hop a plane and get anywhere within less than 24 hours, i always say the mosquito is not a great flier, but it's a wonderful hitchhiker. So it's very easy to reintroduce.

4. Megan Fox:

   As an actor, it's just very unforgiving because you can't be on camera once you're past a certain stage of pregnancy, also, once you have the baby it’s like 'Okay, well you're going to have to leave to nurse every two hours and that costs us money and now we're dealing with insurance.' It becomes this big thing.

5. Matt Damon:

   A lot of us spent our adult lives thinking about two hours and three acts. (We're) now migrating to television going, 'OK, how do I tell this story over 20 hours?' the movie that was my bread and butter for years, the $25 million to $50 million character drama, is just gone. They just don't make that anymore.

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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
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hours