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Look up: hour

  1. hour
    [n] - a special and memorable period 2. [n] - clock time 3. [n] - a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day 4. [n] - distance measured by the time taken to cover it
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Hour
    A unit of time equal to 60 minutes or 3600 seconds in length. See also: Minute, Second, Time.
    Found on http://www.diracdelta.co.uk/science/sour

  3. Hour
    Hour noun [ Middle English hour , our , hore , ure , Old French hore , ore , ure , French heure , Latin hora , from Greek ..., orig., a definite space of time, fixed by natural laws; hen...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/H/65

  4. hour
    1. <physics> The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes. ... 2. The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? at what hour shall we meet? ... 3. Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour o...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  5. hour
    minute noun distance measured by the time taken to cover it; `we live an hour from the airport`; `its just 10 minutes away`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  6. hour
    noun clock time; `the hour is getting late`
    Found on http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/web

  7. hour
    (our) a unit of time, being 60 minutes. the time something occurs. a unit of educational credit. golden hour the first hour following a traumatic injury; patients who are in the operating room within one hour of injury have a much higher survival rate.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/21001

  8. Hour
    • (n.) The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At what hour shall we meet? • (n.) Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers. • (n.) The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  9. hour
    in timekeeping, 3,600 seconds, now defined in terms of radiation emitted from atoms of the element cesium under specified conditions. The hour was ... [4 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/h/73

  10. hour
    hour (s), hours (pl) 1. One of the 24 equal parts of a day. 2. One of the points on a timepiece marking off 12 or 24 successive intervals of 60 minutes, from midnight to noon and noon to midnight or from midnight to midnight. 3. The time of day as indicated by a 12-hour clock and the time of day determined on a 24-hour basis: 1730 hours ...
    Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/inf

  11. hour
    • a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
    • clock time
    • a special and memorable period
    • distance measured by the time taken to cover it

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  12. hour
    Period of time comprising 60 minutes; 24 hours make one calendar day
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  13. Hour
    The `hour` (common symbol: `h` or `hr`; also known as a `stound`) is a unit of measurement of time. In modern usage, an hour comprises 60 minutes, or 3,600 seconds. It is 1/24th of a median Earth day. An hour in the Universal Coordinated Time (UTC) time standard can include a negative or positive le...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hour



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On 10th February 1996, a computer, Deep Blue, beat Russian Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player on the planet, and mankind’s place in the order of things was reshuffled. The match immediately became an iconic symbol of the advances made in artificial intelligence and supercomputing. Kasparov has since retired, like Deep Blue, which now resides in a museum. He has become a vocal advocate for democracy in today’s Russia. read more

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