Hour

Hour

The hour (common symbol: h or hr) is a unit of measurement of time. In modern usage, an hour comprises 60 minutes, or 3,600 seconds. It is approximately 1/24 of a mean solar day.

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Famous quotes containing the word hour:

    “This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.”
    —Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)

    “And not an hour ago you hadn’t a penny to warm your pocket. Did someone die and leave you a pot of gold?”
    —Dudley Nichols (1895–1960)

    “For my father, who used to sit, hour after hour, night after night, outside our house in Africa, watching the stars “Well,” he would say, “if we blow ourselves up, there’s plenty more where we came from!””
    —Doris Lessing (b. 1919)