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:

    Birth control that really works: Every night before we go to bed we spend an hour with our kids.
    Roseanne Barr Arnold (20th century)

    When I died last, and, dear, I die
    As often as from thee I go
    Though it be but an hour ago,
    And lovers’ hours be full eternity.
    John Donne (c. 1572–1631)

    The day was ending at it was the hour of which I do not want to speak, the hour without a name, when the sounds of evening ascended from all the floors of the prison in a procession of silence.
    Albert Camus (1913–1960)