hour An hour (symbol: h; also abbreviated hr) is a unit of time historically reckoned as of a day and defined contemporarily as exactly 3,600 seconds ( SI). There are 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day. The hour was initially establis ...

is a unit of measurement of time. (The) Hour(s) may also refer to:

Measurement

Hour angle In astronomy and celestial navigation, the hour angle is the dihedral angle between the '' meridian plane'' (containing Earth's axis and the zenith) and the '' hour circle'' (containing Earth's axis and a given point of interest). It may be ...

, the measurement of angle in units of hours **

Right ascension Right ascension (abbreviated RA; symbol ) is the angular distance of a particular point measured eastward along the celestial equator from the Sun at the equinox (celestial coordinates), March equinox to the (hour circle of the) point in questio ...

, the astronomical unit of measure of angle *

light hour The light-second is a unit of length useful in astronomy, telecommunications and relativistic physics. It is defined as the distance that light travels in free space in one second, and is equal to exactly (approximately or ). Just as the second ...

or hour, distance equivalent to that travelled by light in vacuum in one hour

Time

* Decimal hour, an alternate form of hour time *

Carnegie Unit and Student Hour The Carnegie Unit and the Student Hour are strictly time-based references for measuring educational attainment used by American universities and colleges; the Carnegie Unit assesses secondary school attainment, and the Student Hour, derived from th ...

or credit-hours, a measurement of completed coursework at a college or university. *

man-hour A man-hour or human-hour is the amount of work performed by the average worker in one hour. It is used for estimation of the total amount of uninterrupted labor required to perform a task. For example, researching and writing a college paper ...

or hour, a measurement of work done by people * hour unit in

time-based currency In economics, a time-based currency is an alternative currency or exchange system where the unit of account is the person-hour or some other time unit. Some time-based currencies value everyone's contributions equally: one hour equals one service ...

* hour meter or hours, a device of measuring hours of usage *

hour hand A clock face is the part of an analog clock (or watch) that displays time through the use of a flat dial with reference marks, and revolving pointers turning on concentric shafts at the center, called hands. In its most basic, globally recogni ...

or hour, a arm on a clock *

Chinese hour Chinese units of measurement, known in Chinese as the ''shìzhì'' ("market system"), are the traditional units of measurement of the Han Chinese. Although Chinese numerals have been decimal (base-10) since the Shang dynasty, Shang, several Chine ...

in traditional Chinese timekeeping

Religion

Canonical hours In the practice of Christianity, canonical hours mark the divisions of the day in terms of Fixed prayer times#Christianity, fixed times of prayer at regular intervals. A book of hours, chiefly a breviary, normally contains a version of, or sel ...

or liturgical hours, divisions of the day in Christianity **

Book of Hours A book is a structured presentation of recorded information, primarily verbal and graphical, through a medium. Originally physical, electronic books and audiobooks are now existent. Physical books are objects that contain printed material, ...

, a printed book or often a manuscript containing prayers for such hours (e.g., the "Hours of Catherine of Cleves") *

Day of Resurrection In Islam, "the promise and threat" () of Judgement Day ( or ), is when "all bodies will be resurrected" from the dead, and "all people" are "called to account" for their deeds and their faith during their life on Earth. It has been called "the do ...

, the Day of Judgement in Islam, also known as "The Hour" *

Horae In Greek mythology, the Horae (), Horai () or Hours (, ) were the goddesses of the seasons and the natural portions of time. Etymology The term ''hora'' comes from the Proto-Indo-European ("year"). Function The Horae were originally the ...

(Hours), deities in Greek mythology, goddesses of the seasons *

Relative hour Relative hour (Hebrew singular: / ; plural: / ), sometimes called halachic hour, temporal hour, seasonal hour and variable hour, is a term used in rabbinic Jewish law that assigns 12 hours to each day and 12 hours to each night, all throughou ...

in Judaism, a variable length hour by splitting daylight and nighttime into 12 hour segments each

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 ''Mrs Dalloway'' is a novel by Virginia Woolf published on 14 May 1925. It details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-First World War England. The working title of ''Mrs Dalloway'' was ''The Hours ...

'', 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 ''Hour'' was an English-language urban news weekly paper published in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, by Communications Voir. Its president-publisher was Pierre Paquet, the editor-in-chief was Kevin Laforest. The first issue was published on Februa ...

'', a weekly entertainment newspaper published in Montreal, earlier known as ''Hour''

Television

* ''Hour Magazine'', a 1980–1988 syndicated talk show hosted by Gary Collins * ''The Hour'' (2009 TV programme), a 2009–2011 Scottish early evening lifestyle television programme, broadcast on STV * ''The Hour'' (2011 TV series), a 2011–2012 British television drama series set in 1956 that aired on BBC * ''

George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight ''George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight'' (originally known as ''The Hour'') is a Canadian television talk show hosted by George Stroumboulopoulos that aired on CBC Television from 2005 to 2014. As ''The Hour'', the show was so named, as it was a dai ...

'', a 2005–2014 Canadian late-night talk show known from 2005 to 2010 as ''The Hour''

Films

* ''The Hours'' (film), a 2002 drama film directed by Stephen Daldry * ''Hours'' (2013 film), a 2013 thriller film

Music

* ''The Hours'' (opera), 2022 opera by Kevin Puts

Bands

The Hours (band) The Hours are an English rock band, formed in 2004 by Antony Genn and Martin Slattery. Career Antony Genn got his start as a 16-year-old joining Pulp and went on to play with Elastica and Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros. He went on to co-w ...

Band of the Hour The Frost Band of the Hour, sometimes abbreviated as simply Band of the Hour, is the marching band at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. The band plays at all home Miami Hurricanes football games and selected away games. It also t ...

, University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, USA

Albums

* ''Hours'' (David Bowie album), a 1999 album by British musician David Bowie * ''Hours'' (Funeral for a Friend album), a 2005 album by Welsh rock band Funeral for a Friend * ''The Hours'' (soundtrack), the soundtrack composed by Philip Glass to the film of the same name * '' Humanity: Hour I'', 2007 album by the Scorpions

Songs

* "Hours", a song by TV on the Radio from the album ''

Return to Cookie Mountain ''Return to Cookie Mountain'' is the second studio album by American rock band TV on the Radio. It was released July 6, 2006, worldwide by 4AD, and issued in the U.S. and Canada on September 12, 2006, by Interscope Records and Touch and Go Rec ...

'' * "The Hours", a song by Beach House from the album ''

Bloom Bloom or blooming may refer to: Science and technology Biology * Bloom, one or more flowers on a flowering plant * Algal bloom, a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae in an aquatic system * Jellyfish bloom, a collective n ...

'' * "The Hours", a song by Handsome Boy Modeling School from the album ''

White People White is a Race (human categorization), racial classification of people generally used for those of predominantly Ethnic groups in Europe, European ancestry. It is also a Human skin color, skin color specifier, although the definition can var ...

'' * "Hour I", 2007 song by the Scorpions off the eponymous album '' Humanity: Hour I''

Places

Hours, Pyrénées-Atlantiques Hours () is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France. See also *Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department The following is a list of the 545 Communes of France, communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantique ...

, a commune in France * Hour, a part of the Walloon municipality of

Houyet Houyet () is a Municipalities of Belgium, municipality of Wallonia in the Namur Province, province of Namur, Belgium. On 1 January 2006 the municipality had 4,485 inhabitants. The total area is 122.31 km², giving a population density of 37 ...

in Belgium * Hour, Iran

Sports

Hour record The hour record is the record for the longest distance cycled in one hour on a bicycle from a stationary start. Cyclists attempt this record alone on the track without other competitors present. It is considered one of the most prestigious record ...

, the hour-long bicycle race *

One hour run The one hour run is an athletics event in which competitors try to cover as much distance as possible within one hour. While officially recognized by World Athletics as a track event, it is rarely contested apart from occasional world record att ...

, the athletics event