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:

    Well, then, never come again
    since you found me out
    the last time;
    I can’t stay in hour after hour
    and wait;
    you were late.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    Yet, when the walls of flesh grow weak,
    In such an hour it may well be,
    Through mist and darkness, light will break,
    And each anointed sense will see.
    Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867–1900)

    New York has never learnt the art of growing old by playing on all its pasts. Its present invents itself, from hour to hour, in the act of throwing away its previous accomplishments and challenging the future. A city composed of paroxysmal places in monumental reliefs.
    Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)