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hourwise

hourwise adjective: hourly or in terms of hours.

Adjective

hourwise (not comparable)

  1. Hourly or in terms of hours.
    • Hourwise traffic volume variations on arterial, collector, residential streets in Ranchi township are shown in Fig. 2.1973, N S Srinivasan, S B Sripathi Rao, Forecasting of traffic and standardisation of widths of roads in industrial townships

Adverb

hourwise (not comparable)

  1. Hourly or in terms of hours.
    • Let me proffer the observation that work done to a prescribed timetable, within a given time, produces and trains men who also do only the barest minumum by the hour and as it were hourwise.1957, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Letters from Goethe
    • The results of quality control checks and number of reports received hourwise for each synoptic hour for each WMO block are monitored.1994, Physics Abstracts

Origin of hourwise

From hour + -wise.

Questions about hourwise

What does hourwise mean?
Hourwise means hourly or in terms of hours.
What part of speech is hourwise?
Hourwise can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near hourwise in the dictionary

  1. hours of need
  2. hours-long
  3. hoursful
  4. hourslong
  5. hoursworth
  6. hourwise
  7. Hous.
  8. housability
  9. housable
  10. housage
  11. housages

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