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    60 MINUTES

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A period of time equal to 1/24th of a dayplay

    Example:

    the job will take more than an hour

    Synonyms:

    60 minutes; hour; hr

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

    Hypernyms ("60 minutes" is a kind of...):

    time unit; unit of time (a unit for measuring time periods)

    Meronyms (parts of "60 minutes"):

    30 minutes; half-hour (a half of an hour)

    15 minutes; quarter-hour (a quarter of an hour)

    min; minute (a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour)

    quarter (a unit of time equal to 15 minutes or a quarter of an hour)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "60 minutes"):

    sidereal hour (1/24 of a sidereal day)

    man hour; person hour (a time unit used in industry for measuring work)

    Holonyms ("60 minutes" is a part of...):

    24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)

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