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semihourly

semihourly adjective: half-hourly: occurring every thirty minutes.

Adjective

semihourly (not comparable)

  1. (properly) Half-hourly: occurring every thirty minutes.
    • The warship rang its semihourly bell, announcing it was now half past 10 o'clock.
  2. (inexact) Roughly (but not exactly) hourly: occurring around every sixty minutes.

Adverb

semihourly (not comparable)

  1. (properly) Half-hourly: at intervals of 30 minutes.
    • Samples were collected semihourly (on the hour and half hour) throughout the study.
  2. (inexact) Roughly (but not exactly) hourly: at intervals of around 60 minutes.

Forms of semihourly

alternative formsemi-hourly

Origin of semihourly

From semi- + hourly.

Questions about semihourly

What does semihourly mean?
Semihourly means half-hourly: occurring every thirty minutes.
What part of speech is semihourly?
Semihourly can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near semihourly in the dictionary

  1. semihomologous
  2. semihomology
  3. semihorny
  4. semihostile
  5. semihot
  6. semihourly
  7. semihug
  8. semihugs
  9. semihuman
  10. semihumanized
  11. semihumans

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