"hour" | Definition and Related Words

hour

Noun

A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day (synset 115252642)
"the job will take more than an hour"

is a type of: time unit, unit of time - a unit for measuring time periods
subtypes:
- sidereal hour - 1/24 of a sidereal day
- man hour, person hour - a time unit used in industry for measuring work
has:
- 30 minutes, half-hour - a half of an hour
- 15 minutes, quarter-hour - a quarter of an hour
- min, minute - a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
- quarter - a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour
is a part of: 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

same as: 60 minutes, hr
Clock time (synset 115253174)
"the hour is getting late"

is a type of: clock time, time - a reading of a point in time as given by a clock
subtypes:
- 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
- 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, morning, sunrise, sunup - the first light of day
- 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, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight - the time of day immediately following sunset
- 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
same as: time of day
A special and memorable period (synset 115253706)
"it was their finest hour"

is a type of: period, period of time, time period - an amount of time
Distance measured by the time taken to cover it (synset 105138288)
"we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away"

is a type of: distance - the property created by the space between two objects or points

same as: minute

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