different between hour vs kph

English

Alternative forms

• hower, houre, howre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English houre, hour, oure, from Anglo-Norman houre, from Old French houre, (h)ore, from Latin h?ra (“hour”), from Ancient Greek ??? (h?ra, “any time or period, whether of the year, month, or day”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh?- (“year, season”). Akin to Old English ??ar (“year”). Doublet of hora.

Displaced native Middle English stunde, stound (“hour, moment, stound”) (from Old English stund (“hour, time, moment”)), Middle English ?etid, tid (“hour, time”) from Old English *?et?d, compare Old Saxon get?d (“hour, time”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ow??r, IPA^(key): /?a??(?)/
• (US, Canada) enPR: owr, IPA^(key): /?a??/
• Rhymes: -a??(?)
• Homophone: our (depending on accent)
• Rhymes: -a?.?(?)

Noun

hour (plural hours)

1. A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.
2. A season, moment, or time.
   • Now will be a good hour to show you Milly Erne's grave.

3. (poetic) The time.

4. (military, in the plural) Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
5. (Christianity, in the plural) The set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
6. (chiefly US) A distance that can be traveled in one hour.

Synonyms

• (period of sixty minutes, a season or moment): stound (obsolete)

Derived terms

Pages starting with “hour”.

Synonyms

• Singular: h, hr
• Plural: h, hrs

Translations

Anagrams

• rohu

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

hour

1. Alternative form of houre

Etymology 2

Determiner

hour

1. Alternative form of oure

References

• “our(e, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 11 May 2018.

Etymology 3

Determiner

hour

1. Alternative form of youre

English

Noun

kph (plural kph)

1. Initialism of kilometre(s) per hour.
2. Initialism of keystroke(s) per hour.

Synonyms

• (kilometres per hour): km/h, kmph, km/hr

Coordinate terms

• (keystrokes per hour): wpm, cps

Translations

Finnish

Noun

kph

1. (housing) Abbreviation of kylpyhuone (“bathroom”).