semihourly
See also: semi-hourly
English
Alternative forms
- semi-hourly
Etymology
semi- + hourly
Adjective
semihourly (not comparable)
- (properly) Half-hourly: occurring every thirty minutes.
- The warship rang its semihourly bell, announcing it was now half past 10 o'clock.
- (inexact) Roughly (but not exactly) hourly: occurring around every sixty minutes.
Adverb
semihourly (not comparable)
- (properly) Half-hourly: at intervals of 30 minutes.
- Samples were collected semihourly (on the hour and half hour) throughout the study.
- (inexact) Roughly (but not exactly) hourly: at intervals of around 60 minutes.