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Academic quarter only applies to time given in full hours, and the academic quarter can be removed by saying that the time is "on the dot" by adding the word "dot" ("prick" in Swedish) or an actual ".". E.g. 10 dot is 10:00. The dot removes one academic quarter, so in the evening time "on the dot" is written "dot dot" to remove both quarters.
AQH is an abbreviation for average quarter-hour persons, defined by Arbitron (now referred to as Nielsen Audio) as the average number of persons listening to a particular station for at least five minutes during a 15-minute period.
each hour (from Latin quaque hora) q.h.s. every bedtime (from Latin quaque hora somni) q.i.d. four times each day (from Latin quater in die) (not deprecated, but consider using "four times a day" instead. See the do-not-use list) QIDS: Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptoms: q.l. as much as you like (from Latin quantum libet) q.m.t. also qm ...
23 June 1945, the day of the dress rehearsal of the first atom bomb test [8] nowadays it is sometimes used informally to mean "Quality Day", or the first day of the calendar quarter. R-Day The unnamed day on which redeployment of major combat, combat support, and combat service support forces begins in an operation. (US) S-Day
Minutes past the hour means those minutes are added to the hour; "ten past five" means 5:10. Minutes to, 'til and of the hour mean those minutes are subtracted; "ten of five", "ten 'til five", and "ten to five" all mean 4:50. Fifteen minutes is often called a quarter hour, and thirty minutes is often known as a half hour. For example, 5:15 can ...
The sonnerie is implemented differently in clocks. On every quarter-hour it strikes the number of quarter hours audibly on a gong, and then the number of hours since the last hour on a second gong. For instance, in a 3 weight Vienna regulator wall clock, at 6:15 it would strike once on a high pitched gong, then strike six times on a lower ...
A quarter hour must include at least 20 clock hours of instruction. For courses that are not required to use the conversion between credit hours and clock hours, a further definition is given in the Federal Student Aid Handbook of: [15] A credit hour is an amount of work that reasonably approximates not less than
In that work, the hours were known by the same earthly branches as the shi, with the first half noted as its "starting" and the second as "completed" or "proper" shi. [48] In modern China, these are instead simply numbered and described as "little shi". The modern ke is now used to count quarter-hours, rather than a separate unit.