hour
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (4)
- a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day“the job will take more than an hour”Synonyms: hr60 minutes
- clock time“the hour is getting late”Synonyms: time of day
- a special and memorable period“it was their finest hour”
- distance measured by the time taken to cover it“we live an hour from the airport”“its just 10 minutes away”Synonyms: minute
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
1.The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes. [1913 Webster]
2.The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At what hour shall we meet? [1913 Webster]
3.Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour. [1913 Webster]
Woman, . . . mine hour is not yet come.— John ii. 4.[1913 Webster]
This is your hour, and the power of darkness.— Luke xxii. 53.[1913 Webster]
4.pl. (R. C. Ch.) Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers. [1913 Webster]
5.A measure of distance traveled. [1913 Webster]
Vilvoorden, three hours from Brussels.— J. P. Peters.[1913 Webster]
After hours, after the time appointed for one's regular labor.
Canonical hours. See under Canonical.
Hour angle (Astron.), the angle between the hour circle passing through a given body, and the meridian of a place.
Hour circle. (Astron.) (a) Any circle of the sphere passing through the two poles of the equator; esp., one of the circles drawn on an artificial globe through the poles, and dividing the equator into spaces of 15[deg], or one hour, each. (b) A circle upon an equatorial telescope lying parallel to the plane of the earth's equator, and graduated in hours and subdivisions of hours of right ascension. (c) A small brass circle attached to the north pole of an artificial globe, and divided into twenty-four parts or hours. It is used to mark differences of time in working problems on the globe.
Hour hand, the hand or index which shows the hour on a timepiece.
Hour line. (a) (Astron.) A line indicating the hour. (b) (Dialing) A line on which the shadow falls at a given hour; the intersection of an hour circle which the face of the dial.
Hour plate, the plate of a timepiece on which the hours are marked; the dial. --Locke.
Sidereal hour, the twenty-fourth part of a sidereal day.
Solar hour, the twenty-fourth part of a solar day.
The small hours, the early hours of the morning, as one o'clock, two o'clock, etc.
To keep good hours, to be regular in going to bed early. [1913 Webster]