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Definition of Half-hour
1. Noun. A half of an hour.
Generic synonyms: Time Unit, Unit Of Time
Group relationships: 60 Minutes, Hour, Hr
Definition of Half-hour
1. Noun. A period of time equal to thirty minutes. ¹
2. Noun. The time of thirty minutes past any particular hour. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Half-hour
Literary usage of Half-hour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"... in the afternoon, we find the first half-hour bright, the next half-hour less
bright, and (he last half-hour worse than useless. ..."
2. The Confessions of an English Opium-eater by Thomas De Quincey (1913)
"stages of the half-hour,—regularly announced to us, on issuing from the school-room,
that the bread and milk which composed our simple breakfast must be ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"WM First half-hour. BBF Second half-hour. 58781 53230 55327 59947 46644 58551
... 49685 50558 Difference = 1'76 per cent. increase in second half- hour on ..."
4. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1921)
"Debate on the adoption of this report shall not exceed one-half hour, not more than
... half hour ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"during the second half-hour, still more rapidly during the third, ... If stained
blood specimens are made during the first to the fourth half-hour, ..."
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