clock hour

One twelfth day

A clock hour is a full sixty-minute period, as opposed to an academic hour or other shortened unit.

The term appears in contexts where the distinction matters—professional licensing, continuing education credits, or flight training: The course requires forty clock hours of instruction.

Sometimes called a contact hour.

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alarm · routine · hand · chime · strike · chronometer · twelve · rush · sweep · gear · hourglass · noon · bell · time zone · stopwatch · time · race against time · schedule

Opposites
time unit scale

clock hourminute

Sixtieth of an hour

second · millisecond · nanosecond · moment · instant

precision of timekeeping

clock hourrough estimate

Imprecise preliminary calculation

timelessness · eternity

Family

clock, hour, clocks, clocked, clocking, clockwise, clockwork, hours, hourly

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