Abbreviation for 'hours', units of time equal to 60 minutes each. Commonly used in schedules, contracts, and time measurements.
Shortened form of 'hours', which comes from Old French 'hore' and Latin 'hora', ultimately from Greek 'hora' meaning 'season' or 'time of day'. The Greek term originally referred to any period of time, not specifically 60 minutes.
The ancient Greeks divided day and night into 12 'hours' each, but these were seasonal hours that changed length with the seasons! Summer daylight hours were longer than winter ones, making ancient timekeeping fascinatingly flexible compared to our rigid modern hours.
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