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:

    “An April Sunday brings the snow
    Making the blossom on the plum trees green,
    Not white. An hour or two, and it will go.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “A great calamity ... is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.”
    —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

    “I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.”
    —Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)