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[ noun ] a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day

Synonyms

hour 60_minutes

Examples

"the job will take more than an hour"

Used in print

(Harry H. Hull, "The Normal Forces and Their Ther...)

Although the tape was run for over 1 hr. , a steady state was not reached , and it was concluded that the reason for this was that the back pressure of the manometer was built_up from the material fed from between the blocks and this was available at a very slow rate .

(M. Yokoyama et al., "Chemical and serological...)

The mixtures of sample plus cell suspension were allowed to stand at room_temperature for 1 hr .

For the albumin method , equal volumes of 30 % bovine albumin , sample and 2 % cells suspended in saline were allowed to stand at room_temperature for 1 hr and then were centrifuged at 1000 rpm for 1 min .

The saline and albumin tests were performed as described for the ABO samples except that the mixture was incubated for 1 hr at 37 ` C before centrifugation .

Blood samples were allowed to clot at room_temperature for 3 hr , centrifuged and the serum was removed .

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