'After hours' definitions:
Definition of 'after hours'
From: WordNet
adverb
Not during regular hours; "he often worked after hours"
Definition of 'After hours'
From: GCIDE
- Hour \Hour\, n. [OE. hour, our, hore, ure, OF. hore, ore, ure, F. heure, L. hora, fr. Gr. ?, orig., a definite space of time, fixed by natural laws; hence, a season, the time of the day, an hour. See Year, and cf. Horologe, Horoscope.]
- 1. The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At what hour shall we meet? [1913 Webster]
- 3. Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour. [1913 Webster]
- Woman, . . . mine hour is not yet come. --John ii. 4. [1913 Webster]
- This is your hour, and the power of darkness. --Luke xxii. 53. [1913 Webster]
- 4. pl. (R. C. Ch.) Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A measure of distance traveled. [1913 Webster]
- Vilvoorden, three hours from Brussels. --J. P. Peters. [1913 Webster]
- After hours, after the time appointed for one's regular labor.
- Canonical hours. See under Canonical.
- Hour angle (Astron.), the angle between the hour circle passing through a given body, and the meridian of a place.
- Hour circle. (Astron.) (a) Any circle of the sphere passing through the two poles of the equator; esp., one of the circles drawn on an artificial globe through the poles, and dividing the equator into spaces of 15[deg], or one hour, each. (b) A circle upon an equatorial telescope lying parallel to the plane of the earth's equator, and graduated in hours and subdivisions of hours of right ascension. (c) A small brass circle attached to the north pole of an artificial globe, and divided into twenty-four parts or hours. It is used to mark differences of time in working problems on the globe.
- Hour hand, the hand or index which shows the hour on a timepiece.
- Hour line. (a) (Astron.) A line indicating the hour. (b) (Dialing) A line on which the shadow falls at a given hour; the intersection of an hour circle which the face of the dial.
- Hour plate, the plate of a timepiece on which the hours are marked; the dial. --Locke.
- Sidereal hour, the twenty-fourth part of a sidereal day.
- Solar hour, the twenty-fourth part of a solar day.
- The small hours, the early hours of the morning, as one o'clock, two o'clock, etc.
- To keep good hours, to be regular in going to bed early. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'After hours'
- Hour,
- Hourly,
- Hours,
- Canonical hours,
- Hour angle,
- Hour circle,
- Hour hand,
- Hour line,
- Hour plate,
- Kilowatt hour,
- Little hours,
- Post hour,
- Sidereal hour,
- Small hours,
- Solar hour,
- The small hours,
- To serve the hour,
- after-hours,
- canonical hour,
- credit hour,
- eleventh hour,
- for 24 hours,
- happy hour,
- light hour,
- man hour,
- person hour,
- rush hour,
- semester hour,
- witching hour,
- zero hour,
- 24-hour interval,
- Half-hourly,
- To keep bad hours,
- To keep good hours,
- ampere-hour,
- flower-of-an-hour,
- flowers-of-an-hour,
- half-hour,
- horsepower-hour,
- kilometers per hour,
- kilometres per hour,
- man-hour,
- miles per hour,
- quarter-hour,
- watt-hour,
- early-morning hour,
- half-hour glass,
- late-night hour,
- twenty-four hours,
- circadian exhibiting 24-hour periodicity,
- twenty-four hour period