hour An hour (symbol: h; also abbreviated hr) is a unit of time conventionally reckoned as of a day and scientifically reckoned between 3,599 and 3,601 seconds, depending on the speed of Earth's rotation. There are 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 ho ...

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

Time

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

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

Book of Hours The book of hours is a Christian devotional book used to pray the canonical hours. The use of a book of hours was especially popular in the Middle Ages and as a result, they are the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscrip ...

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

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 the ...

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

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'', 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 February ...

'', 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 dail ...

'', 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 (band) The Hours was 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-wr ...

* ''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 * "Hours", a song by TV on the Radio from the album '' Return to Cookie Mountain'' * "The Hours", a song by Handsome Boy Modeling School from the album ''

White People White is a racialized classification of people and a skin color specifier, generally used for people of European origin, although the definition can vary depending on context, nationality, and point of view. Description of populations as ...

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

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 546 communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department of Franc ...

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

Houyet Houyet () is a municipality of Wallonia in the 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 inhabitants per km². The municipality con ...

in Belgium

Other uses

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 March equinox to the (hour circle of the) point in question above the earth. When paired w ...

, the astronomical unit of measure of angle * Hour record, the hour-long bicycle race *

Day of Resurrection In Islam, "the promise and threat" () of Judgment Day ( ar, یوم القيامة, Yawm al-qiyāmah, Day of Resurrection or ar, یوم الدین, italic=no, Yawm ad-din, Day of Judgement), when "all bodies will be resurrected" from the dead, ...

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