credit hour
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3.5
- noun
- /ˈkrɛdɪt ˈaʊər/
- Specialized
:
hora de crédito
- The professor advised that each credit hour requires about three hours of study per week.
- credit hours earned
- credit hour course
- number of credit hours
Examples
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In addition, the range of credit hour requirements is quite similar except for the Health course category.
Academic text (1996) -
And now the typical recommendation that you see is for each credit hour, you should study three hours per week.
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You are going to finish those 12 credit hours for your degree, no matter whether you make that team or not.
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What should be the minimum number of credit hours a physical education major is required to take in dance?
Academic text (1992) -
A ratio of 1.00 indicates that a student earned all credit hours he or she enrolled in.
Academic text (2015) -
In addition, of interest to this study was an examination of course credit hours enrolled and credit hours earned.
Academic text (2015) -
Is intelligence testing really important enough to devote 3, 4, or 6 credit hours of work?
Academic text (1991) -
Data were collected for students who had completed 18 credit hours or more during a five-year period.
Academic text (1991) -
On average, those who withdrew were attempting 14 semester credit hours, compared to 13 for those who remained.
Academic text (1997) -
But it is questionable how many credit hours should be required in mathematics by Russian business schools.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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3.5
Recognition for finishing a course that counts toward a degree
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3.4
An official record that a college gives for a completed course toward a degree
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3.7
A unit used to count how much study a course gives toward a degree
A unit of college credit equal to one hour of class per week during a semester
A unit showing how much study a course needs at a European university
A point given by European universities to show how much student work a course needs
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'credit' (an academic unit awarded for coursework) with 'hour' (a 60-minute period): it denotes a credit measured by hours of instruction. Although somewhat technical to higher education, the noun–noun composition is compositional and predictable, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Credit hour comes from the simple idea of giving one credit for each hour of class a student has each week during a semester. That's why a three-hour course gives three 'credit' units that count toward a 'degree'.