• H

    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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    h
    1. (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
    h28m p. m., 10 micra; 3h08m p. m., 0 micra; irrigated with water: 3h09m p. m., 4 micra.
    1. (baseball) the statistic reporting the number of hits by a player
    2. (slang) heroin
    3. (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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