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hour

a measurement of time: I’ll be ready in an hour.

Not to be confused with:

our – belonging to us; possessive of we: We have our new home.

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hour

n.

1. One of the 24 equal parts of a day.

2.

a. One of the points on a timepiece marking off 12 or 24 successive intervals of 60 minutes, from midnight to noon and noon to midnight or from midnight to midnight.

b. The time of day indicated by a 12-hour clock.

c. hours The time of day determined on a 24-hour basis: 1730 hours is 5:30 pm.

3. A unit of measure of longitude or right ascension, equal to 15° or 1/24 of a great circle.

4.

a. A customary or fixed time: the dinner hour.

b. hours A set or customary period of time for a specified activity: banking hours.

5.

a. A particular time: their hour of need.

b. A significant time: Her hour had come.

c. The present time: the man of the hour.

6.

a. The work that can be accomplished in an hour.

b. The distance that can be traveled in an hour.

7.

a. A single session of a school day or class.

b. A credit hour.

8. hours Ecclesiastical The canonical hours.

long hours

A longer than usual or customary period of time for a given activity: worked long hours to finish the project on time.

[Middle English, from Old French houre, from Latin hōra, from Greek hōrā, season, time; see yēr- in Indo-European roots.]

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hour

n

1. (Units) a period of time equal to 3600 seconds; th of a calendar day.

2. (Horology) any of the points on the face of a timepiece that indicate intervals of 60 minutes

3. the hour an exact number of complete hours: the bus leaves on the hour.

4. (Horology) the time of day as indicated by a watch, clock, etc

5. the period of time allowed for or used for something: the lunch hour; the hour of prayer.

6. a special moment or period: our finest hour.

7. the hour the present time: the man of the hour.

8. the distance covered in an hour: we live an hour from the city.

9. (Astronomy) astronomy an angular measurement of right ascension equal to 15° or a 24th part of the celestial equator

10. one's hour

a. a time of success, fame, etc

b. Also: one's last hour the time of one's death: his hour had come.

11. take one's hour informal Irish to do something in a leisurely manner

[C13: from Old French hore, from Latin hōra, from Greek: season]

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hour

n.

1. a period of time equal to 1/24 of a mean solar or civil day and equivalent to 60 minutes.

2. any specific one of these 24 periods, usu. reckoned in two series of 12, one series from midnight to noon and the second from noon to midnight, but sometimes reckoned (esp. in military and non-U.S. usage) in one series of 24, from midnight to midnight: He slept for the hour between 2 and 3 a. m. The hour for the bombardment was between 1330 (1:30 p.m.) and 1400 (2:00 p.m.).

3. any specific time of day; the time indicated by a timepiece: What is the hour?

4. a short or limited period of time: one's hour of glory.

5. a particular or appointed time: At what hour do you open?

6. a customary or usual time: dinner hour.

7. the present time: the issues of the hour.

8. hours,

a. time spent at a workplace or in working, studying, etc.

b. customary time of going to bed and getting up: to keep late hours.

c. (in the Christian church) the seven stated times of the day for prayer and devotion.

d. the offices or services prescribed for these times.

e. a book containing them.

9. the distance normally covered in an hour's traveling: We live about an hour from the city.

10. a unit of measure of right ascension representing 15°, or the 24th part of a great circle.

11. a single period, as of instruction or therapy, usu. lasting from 40 to 55 minutes.

[1175–1225; < Old French (h)ore < Latin hōra < Greek hṓrā time, season]

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hour

(hr) A unit of time measurement equal to 60 min (3600 s).

Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited

Noun	1.	hour - a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day; "the job will take more than an hour" 60 minutes, hr time unit, unit of time - a unit for measuring time periods 24-hour interval, day, mean solar day, solar day, twenty-four hour period, twenty-four hours - time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; "two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day" sidereal hour - 1/24 of a sidereal day 30 minutes, half-hour - a half of an hour 15 minutes, quarter-hour - a quarter of an hour man hour, person hour - a time unit used in industry for measuring work min, minute - a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour; "he ran a 4 minute mile" quarter - a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour; "it's a quarter til 4"; "a quarter after 4 o'clock"
	2.	hour - clock time; "the hour is getting late" time of day clock time, time - a reading of a point in time as given by a clock; "do you know what time it is?"; "the time is 10 o'clock" high noon, midday, noon, noonday, noontide, twelve noon - the middle of the day mealtime - the hour at which a meal is habitually or customarily eaten late-night hour - the latter part of night midnight - 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night; "young children should not be allowed to stay up until midnight" small hours - the hours just after midnight bedtime - the time you go to bed closing time - the regular time of day when an establishment closes to the public aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, sunrise, sunup, morning - the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning" early-morning hour - an hour early in the morning sundown, sunset - the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight, fall - the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" none - a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise happy hour - the time of day when a bar sells alcoholic drinks at a reduced price rush hour - the times at the beginning and end of the working day when many people are traveling to or from work zero hour - the time set for the start of an action or operation canonical hour - (Roman Catholic Church) one of seven specified times for prayer
	3.	hour - a special and memorable period; "it was their finest hour" period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period"
	4.	hour - distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away" minute distance - the property created by the space between two objects or points

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hour

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hour

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B. CPD hour hand N → horario m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

hour

[ˈaʊər]

n

(= time) → heure f
between the hours of eleven and twelve (in the morning) → entre onze heures et midi
at all hours of [day, night, morning] → à toute heure de
at all hours of the day and night → à toute heure du jour et de la nuit
in the early hours, in the small hours (= in the very early morning) → au petit matin, au petit jour

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hour

(sometimes abbreviated to hr when written).

1. sixty minutes, the twenty-fourth part of a day. He spent an hour trying to start the car this morning; She'll be home in half an hour; a five-hour delay.

2. the time at which a particular thing happens. when the hour for action arrives; He helped me in my hour of need; You can consult him during business hours.

(happening or done) every hour. Take his temperature hourly; hourly reports.

a device that measures time in hours by passing sand from one glass container through a narrow tube into a lower container.

the smaller of the two hands of a watch or clock, which shows the time in hours.

at irregular times, especially late at night. He comes home at all hours.

for a very long time. We waited for hours for the train.

at exactly one, two, three etc o'clock. Buses leave here for London on the hour until 10 o'clock in the evening.

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hour

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

hour

n. hora;

by the ___ → por hora;

adv. a cada hora.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

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hour

n hora; office hours horario(s) de consulta, horas de consulta; visiting hours horario(s) de visita, horas de visita

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