Definition of hour hand
: the short hand that marks the hours on the face of a watch or clock
Examples of hour hand in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web Imagine winding the hour hand of a clock back from 3 o’clock to noon.
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Quanta Magazine, "The Strange Numbers That Birthed Modern Algebra," 6 Sep. 2018 So the hour and the minute hand line up 12 – 1 = 11 times over one full rotation of the hour hand resulting in an 11-fold symmetry of the positions of the hands on the clock.
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Quanta Magazine, "Solution: ‘Creating Art With Mathematics’," 30 Oct. 2015 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ana Veciana-suarez, miamiherald, "Daylight Saving Time is an insult to the body and brain | Miami Herald," 12 Mar. 2018
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The first known use of hour hand was in 1669
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