Pronunciation
- (letter name) IPA: /eɪtʃ/, /heɪtʃ/
(the latter in
Hiberno-English and )
- (phoneme) IPA: /h/, silent
Origin 1
Full definition of h
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Origin 2
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h- (science) abbreviation for hour particularly when used as a (non-SI#English, SI) unit of time alongside International System of Units (SI) units
- 1908, Francis Ernest Lloyd, The Physiology of Stomata (Carnegie Institution of Washington), page 83:Another instance: 2
h28
m p. m., 10 micra; 3
h08
m p. m., 0 micra; irrigated with water: 3
h09
m p. m., 4 micra.
- (baseball) the statistic reporting the number of hits by a player
- (slang) heroin
- (computing) hexadecimal (following a number)
- 1994, Jan Axelson, The microcontroller idea book (page 47)The commands assume that the NV memory is addressed beginning at 8000h in external data memory.
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