hour hand

noun

Definition of hour hand

: the short hand that marks the hours on the face of a watch or clock

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Hublot Housed in a 45mm carbon-fiber case, the Big Bang Unico GMT Carbon features an arrow-tipped hour hand and day/night indicator on a skeleton dial; $23,100, at Hublot, NYC and Beverly Hills or hublot.com. 5. — Laurie Brookins, The Hollywood Reporter, "12 Timeless Travel Watches for Festival Season," 6 Sep. 2019 Mathematicians have long known how to describe this rotation as a simple multiplication: A number representing the initial position of the hour hand on the plane is multiplied by another constant number. — Quanta Magazine, "The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra," 6 Sep. 2018 The first-period bell currently sounds throughout Cincinnati Public Schools at 7:30 a.m., but an initiative led by students recently convinced administrators to yank the hour hand forward to 8:30 a.m. within three years. — Zach Schermele, Teen Vogue, "Starting School Later Can Drastically Improve Students' Lives," 9 May 2019 Thread the two together, and glue the minute hand to the dowel and the hour hand to the PVC. — Lara Sorokanich, Popular Mechanics, "4 Great Halloween Costumes From the PM Archives," 11 Oct. 2018 Right now fiddling with the hour hand twice a year defies logic and biology. — Ana Veciana-suarez, miamiherald, "Daylight Saving Time is an insult to the body and brain | Miami Herald," 12 Mar. 2018

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hour hand

noun

English Language Learners Definition of hour hand

: the short hand that marks the hours on a watch or clock

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