Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hourwise

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hour-wise
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Hourly or in terms of hours.

adv

Hourly or in terms of hours.

Example Sentences

"Hourwise traffic volume variations on arterial, collector, residential streets in Ranchi township are shown in Fig. 2."
"1957, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Letters from Goethe 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."
"The results of quality control checks and number of reports received hourwise for each synoptic hour for each WMO block are monitored."

Etymology

From hour + -wise.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: hour

Questions

What does hourwise mean?: Hourly or in terms of hours.
Where does hourwise come from?: From hour + -wise.

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