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The Hour (UK TV Series)
An hour is a unit of measurement of time. (The) Hour(s) may also refer to: Time * Canonical hours or liturgical hours, divisions of the day in Christianity ** Book of Hours, a printed book or often a manuscript containing prayers for such hours (e.g., the "Hours of Catherine of Cleves") * Horae (Hours), deities in Greek mythology * Carnegie Unit and Student Hour or credit-hours, a measurement of completed coursework at a college or university. Art, entertainment, and media * ''The Hours'' (engraving), by Francesco Bartolozzi, based on a painting by Maria Cosway Literature * ''The Hours'' (novel), a 1998 novel by Michael Cunningham * ''Mrs Dalloway'', a novel by Virginia Woolf that had the working title "The Hours" Periodicals * ''The Hour'' (newspaper), a daily newspaper by in Norwalk, Connecticut, U.S. * '' Hour Community'', a weekly entertainment newspaper published in Montreal, earlier known as ''Hour'' Television * ''Hour Magazine'', a 1980–1988 syndicated talk sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hour
An hour (symbol: h; also abbreviated hr) is a unit of time conventionally reckoned as of a day and scientifically reckoned between 3,599 and 3,601 seconds, depending on the speed of Earth's rotation. There are 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day. The hour was initially established in the ancient Near East as a variable measure of of the night or daytime. Such seasonal, temporal, or unequal hours varied by season and latitude. Equal or equinoctial hours were taken as of the day as measured from noon to noon; the minor seasonal variations of this unit were eventually smoothed by making it of the mean solar day. Since this unit was not constant due to long term variations in the Earth's rotation, the hour was finally separated from the Earth's rotation and defined in terms of the atomic or physical second. In the modern metric system, hours are an accepted unit of time defined as 3,600 atomic seconds. However, on rare occasions an hour may incorporate a posit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
