semester credit hour
1credit hour — noun a unit of academic credit; one hour a week for an academic semester • Syn: ↑semester hour • Hypernyms: ↑credit, ↑course credit * * * noun : the unit of measuring educational credit usually consisting of one weekly period lasting… …
2credit hour — cred′it hour n. edu one unit of academic credit, usu. representing attendance at one scheduled period of instruction per week throughout a semester, quarter, or term • Etymology: 1925–30 …
3semester hour — noun a unit of academic credit; one hour a week for an academic semester (Freq. 3) • Syn: ↑credit hour • Hypernyms: ↑credit, ↑course credit * * * noun : a unit of academic credit or load representing an hour a week for an academic semester… …
4semester — noun (esp. in the US) ADJECTIVE ▪ first, second ▪ the end of the first semester course ▪ fall, spring, summer ▪ His fall semes …
5hour — hourless, adj. /oweur, ow euhr/, n. 1. a period of time equal to one twenty fourth of a mean solar or civil day and equivalent to 60 minutes: He slept for an hour. 2. any specific one of these 24 periods, usually reckoned in two series of 12, one …
6hour — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French ure, eure, from Late Latin & Latin; Late Latin hora canonical hour, from Latin, hour of the day, from Greek hōra more at year Date: 13th century 1. a time or office for daily liturgical devotion;… …
7semester hour — noun Date: 1922 a unit of academic credit representing an hour of class (as lecture class) or three hours of laboratory work each week for an academic semester …
8semester hour — Educ. a unit of academic credit fulfilled by completing one hour of class instruction each week for one semester. [1945 50, Amer.] * * * …
9semester hour — (sem hr) a unit of academic credit, supposedly equal to one semester s study for a period of one hour per week. However, academic hours slightly shorter than regular hours (often 50 or 55 minutes per class) are typically used in these… …
10Carnegie Unit and Student Hour — The Carnegie Unit and the Student Hour (also called a Credit Hour) are strictly time based references for measuring educational attainment used by American universities and colleges; the Carnegie Unit assesses secondary school attainment, and the …
