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HR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A period of time equal to 1/24th of a day
Example:
the job will take more than an hour
Synonyms:
60 minutes; hour; hr
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("hr" is a kind of...):
time unit; unit of time (a unit for measuring time periods)
Meronyms (parts of "hr"):
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 "hr"):
sidereal hour (1/24 of a sidereal day)
man hour; person hour (a time unit used in industry for measuring work)
Holonyms ("hr" 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)
