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.

Read more about Hour.

Famous quotes containing the word hour:

    Hush’d in and curtain’d with a blessed dearth
    Of all that irk’d her from the hour of birth;
    With stillness that is almost Paradise.
    Darkness more clear than noonday holdeth her,
    Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)

    The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.
    Socrates (469–399 B.C.)

    A day for toil, an hour for sport,
    But for a friend is life too short.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)