"girl-hour" meaning in English

See girl-hour in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: girl-hours [plural]
Etymology: From girl + hour. Etymology templates: {{com|en|girl|hour}} girl + hour Head templates: {{en-noun}} girl-hour (plural girl-hours)
  1. (historical, obsolete) 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. Tags: historical, obsolete Related terms: kilogirl-hour
    Sense id: en-girl-hour-en-noun-utGULnWx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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