hour

1. Hour
   A measure of distance traveled. "Vilvoorden, three hours from Brussels."
2. Hour
   (R. C. Ch) Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers.
3. Hour
   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?
4. Hour
   The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes.

1. (n) hour
   A particular time; a fixed or appointed time; a set season: as, the hour of death.
2. (n) hour
   The time marked or indicated by a timepiece; the particular time of day: as, what is the hour? at what hour shall we meet?
3. (n) hour
   The twenty-fourth part of a civil day, or the twelfth part of a natural day or night. This division of time was invented by the Babylonians. Until modern times the hour was commonly considered as the twelfth part of the interval from sunrise to sunset or from sunset to sunrise. Until some time in the eighteenth century mean time was not used for ordinary purposes. Thus the Italians began the day half an hour after sunset, and reckoned 24 hours in each day. Until watches came into common use, in the seventeenth century, the time of day was determined ordinarily by the altitude of the sun, as in the following extract from Palladius, where the length of the shadow of a staff 4 feet long placed vertically determines the hours of the day reckoned from sunrise. Abbreviated h.
4. (n) hour
   plural Set times of prayer; the canonical hours (which see, under canonical).
5. (n) hour
   The offices or services prescribed for the canonical hours, or a book containing them. See book of hours, below.
6. (n) hour
   In Greek myth, one of the Horæ or Hours, the goddesses of the seasons and guardians of the gates of heaven. They were held especially to personify the agreeable characteristics of the seasons, were closely associated with the Graces, and were attached to the train of Aphrodite. In art and poetry they were represented as young and graceful, decked with flowers and jewels.
7. (n) hour
   The hour reckoned from sunrise as the beginning of the day.
8. (n) hour
   In astronomy and geography, an angular measure of right ascension or longitude, being the twenty-fourth part of a great circle of the sphere, or fifteen degrees.
9. (n) hour
   One hour in a shop. In many technical schools students are required to spend a certain number of hours in workshops. These are called shop-hours, to distinguish them from the hours spent in the recitation-room.

1. (n) Hour
   owr 60 min., or the 24th part of a day: the time indicated by a clock, &c.: an hour's journey, or three miles: a time or occasion; (pl., myth.) the goddesses of the seasons and the hours: set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them
2. (adv) Hour
   every hour: frequently

minute hr 60 minutes time of day

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