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semihourly

Speech parts

1. semihourly - Adjective

2. semihourly - Adverb

Meaning

(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.

(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.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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