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q.h.

American  

abbreviation

  1. (in prescriptions) each hour; every hour.


Etymology

Origin of q.h.

From Latin quāque hōrā

Example Sentences

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QH: Say the owner of the building that your aunt has lived in since 1980 passed away, and the new owner comes, and he wants to kick everybody out and remodel the building.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025

QH: I made that up in 2011, before Instagram, around the time that Nate Dogg passed away.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025

You should also notice that we used the product rule to calculate the probability of PH and QT, and also the probability of PT and QH, before we summed them.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

They also want their burgers — which QH serves up, good and greasy — in a room that feels lived-in, not some soulless space based on an architect’s checklist of what millennials love.

From Washington Post • Jun. 18, 2019

The value of the $4.26bn investment QH has made in Xstrata since the 7 February merger announcement would likely fall sharply.

From The Guardian • Jun. 27, 2012

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