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:

    “Now the hedgerow
    Is blanched for an hour with transitory blossom
    Of snow, a bloom more sudden
    Than that of summer,”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.”
    —Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962)

    “I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)