girl-hour

noun

Etymology

From girl + hour.

  1. derived from *yóh₁r̥
  2. derived from ὥρα
  3. derived from hōra
  4. derived from houre
  5. inherited from houre
  6. compounded as girl-hour — “girl + hour

Definitions

  1. A unit of computing power in the context of 1940s–1970s technology equal to one female…

    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.

    • THEN by adopting automatic cartoning machine, productivity per girl-hour was increased by one-third.

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