Girl-hour
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Girl-hour is a noun meaning (historical) A unit of computing power in the context of 1940s–1970s technology equal to one female worker working for one hour, for example, writing code or entering data to punch cards.
Meaning
(historical) A unit of computing power in the context of 1940s–1970s technology equal to one female worker working for one hour, for example, writing code or entering data to punch cards.
Example Sentences
THEN by adopting automatic cartoning machine, productivity per girl-hour was increased by one-third.
Word Forms
- girl-hours
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include woman-hour, man-hour, person-hour, jobhour, hourage, hour.
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