Noun

(en noun)

A brief, unspecified amount of time.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,

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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author= Sam Leith

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The smallest portion of time; an instant.

* , chapter=5

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}

Weight or importance.

* 1597 , (William Shakespeare), , 3,7,67:

In deep designs, in matter of great moment , / No less importing than our general good.

* 1904 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), (The Adventure of the Second Stain) , (Norton 2005, p.1192)

The document in question is of such immense importance that its publication might very easily – I might almost say probably – lead to European complications of the utmost moment .

The turning effect of a force applied to a rotational system at a distance from the axis of rotation. Also called moment of force.

(label) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.

(label) A petit mal episode; such a spell.

(label) A fit, a short-duration tantrum, a hissy.

(label) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.

Noun

(wikipedia hour) (en noun)

A time period of sixty minutes; one twenty-fourth of a day.

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*1661 , , [http://archive.org/stream/a615775104worduoft/a615775104worduoft_djvu.txt The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond]

*:During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant

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*:It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)

, title=[http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21604535-real-sir-isaac-newton-was-not-first-king-reason-last Magician’s brain] , passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.}}

A season, moment, time or stound.

*(Edgar Allen Poe) (1809-1849), Alone :

*:From childhood's hour I have not been / As others were; I have not seen / As others saw; I could not bring / My passions from a common spring.

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*:Now will be a good hour to show you Milly Erne's grave.

(lb) The time.

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Used after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.

*T. C. G. James and Sebastian Cox, The Battle of Britain :

*:By 1300 hours the position was fairly clear.