Hour (disambiguation)

An hour is a unit of measurement of time.

(The) Hour(s) may also refer to:

Measurement

• Hour angle, the measurement of angle in units of hours
  • Right ascension, the astronomical unit of measure of angle
• light hour or hour, distance equivalent to that travelled by light in vacuum in one hour

Time

• Decimal hour, an alternate form of hour time
• Carnegie Unit and Student Hour or credit-hours, a measurement of completed coursework at a college or university.
• man-hour or hour, a measurement of work done by people
• hour unit in time-based currency
• hour meter or hours, a device of measuring hours of usage
• hour hand or hour, a arm on a clock
• Chinese hour in traditional Chinese timekeeping

Religion

• Canonical hours or liturgical hours, divisions of the day in Christianity
  • Book of Hours, a printed book or often a manuscript containing prayers for such hours (e.g., the "Hours of Catherine of Cleves")
• Day of Resurrection, the Day of Judgement in Islam, also known as "The Hour"
• Horae (Hours), deities in Greek mythology, goddesses of the seasons
• Relative hour in Judaism, a variable length hour by splitting daylight and nighttime into 12 hour segments each

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, 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, 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 (opera), 2022 opera by Kevin Puts

Bands

• The Hours (band)
• Band of the Hour, University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, USA

Albums

• 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
• Humanity: Hour I, 2007 album by the Scorpions

Songs

• "Hours", a song by TV on the Radio from the album Return to Cookie Mountain
• "The Hours", a song by Beach House from the album Bloom
• "The Hours", a song by Handsome Boy Modeling School from the album White People
• "Hour I", 2007 song by the Scorpions off the eponymous album Humanity: Hour I

Places

• Hours, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, a commune in France
• Hour, a part of the Walloon municipality of Houyet in Belgium
• Hour, Iran

Sports

• Hour record, the hour-long bicycle race
• One hour run, the athletics event

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with The Hour
• All pages with titles beginning with Hour
• All pages with titles containing Hours
• All pages with titles containing Hour
• Hourglass (disambiguation)
• H-Hour