hour

Nimisõna

hour [aʊə] (Briti), [aʊr] (USA)

1. tund. Aja mõõtühik, mis võrdub 3600 sekundiga ehk 1/24 ööpäevaga.

   How many hours' sleep do you need? – Mitu tundi te peate magama?

2. Kella numbrilaua minutipunkt.
3. Kella numbrilaua tunnipunkt.
4. kellaaeg
5. aeg. Päevaaeg millegi tegemiseks.
6. hetk, aeg, tund. Eriline hetk või aeg.
7. tunnitee. Tunni jooksul jalgsi läbitav vahemaa.
8. Ühe tunni töö.
9. tund, õppetund. Koolipäeva üks istung.
10. astronoomia: tund. Otsetõusu mõõtühik, mis vastab 15 kraadile ehk 1/24-le taevaekvaatorist.
11. Kaarepikkuse mõõtühik, mis vastab 15 kraadile ehk 1/24-le suuringjoonest.
12. ainepunkt. Õppetöö maht, mis vastab ühele auditoorse töö tunnile või kolmele laboratoorse töö tunnile nädalas semestri jooksul.

    Sünonüümid:

    • credit hour
    • semester hour

Lühend

• hr.

Vormid

• ainsuse omastav: hour's
• mitmus: hours
• mitmuse omastav: hours'

Tuletised

• hourly
• hours

Liitsõnad

• after-hours
• ampere-hour
• by-hour
• eight-hour
• flower-of-an-hour
• H-hour
• half-hour
• horsepower-hour
• hourglass
• hourlong, hour-long
• kilowatt-hour
• light-hour
• long-hours
• lumen-hour
• machine-hour
• man-hour, manhour
• quarter-hour
• shop-hour
• twenty-four-hour
• two-hour
• watt-hour

Fraasid

• a quarter of an hour
• after hours
• after one hour
• after the hour
• after two hours
• all hours
• an hour
• an hour ago
• an hour and a half
• an hour away
• an hour from
• an hour of
• an hour's
• at all hours
• at all hours of the day and the night, at all ours of the day and night
• at any hour of the day or night
• at this hour
• at this unearthly hour
• at this ungodly hour
• at two hours' notice
• banking hours
• business hours
• book of hours
• by the hour
• candle hour
• canonical hour
• canonical hours
• cocktail hour
• coffee hour
• consulting hours
• credit hour
• daylight hours
• dinner hour
• eleventh hour, the eleventh hour
• every hour
• every hour on the hour
• evil hour, the evil hour
• for hours, for hours and hours
• for hours on end
• from hour to hour
• golden hour
• Greenwich hour angle
• H hour
• half an hour
• half an hour flat
• half hour
• happy hour
• the hero of the hour
• the issues of the hour
• hour after hour
• hour angle
• hour circle
• hour hand
• hour line
• hour to hour
• hour upon hour
• hour wheel
• the hours of darkness
• the hours of daylight
• in an hour
• in an hour's time
• in one's hour of need
• in the early hours
• in the small hours
• in two hour's time
• inequal hour
• it takes an hour
• Kelly hours
• kill an hour
• late hours
• licensing hours
• literacy hour
• little hours
• long hours
• lunch hour
• megawatt hour
• miles an hour, miles per hours
• of the hour
• office hours
• on the hour
• one's darkest hour
• one's finest hour
• one's hour
• one's hour has come
• one's hour of need
• one's last hour
• opening hours
• past the hour
• peak hours
• per hour
• person hour
• rush hour
• school hours
• shopping hours
• sidereal hour
• small hours, the small hours
• staggered hours
• strike the hour
• surgery hours
• take an hour
• take one's hour
• the darkest hour is just before the dawn
• the hour
• three-quarters of an hour
• till all hours
• to all hours
• to the hour
• twenty-four hours
• twilight hours
• uncivilized hour
• unearthly hour
• ungodly hour
• visiting hours
• waking hours
• witching hour, the witching hour
• within the hour
• work long hours
• work regular hours
• work unsocial hours
• working hours
• zero hour

Vaata ka

• Horae
• horal
• horary

Päritolu

13. sajandist.

Vanaprantsuse sõnast hore, houre. See pärineb ladina sõnast hora.

Tunnitee tähenduses on teada 1785. aastast.