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/ eɪtʃ /

noun, plural H's or Hs, h's or hs.

the eighth letter of the English alphabet, a consonant.

any spoken sound represented by the letter H or h, as in hot or behave.

something having the shape of an H.

a written or printed representation of the letter H or h.

a device, as a printer's type, for reproducing the letter H or h.

the eighth in order or in a series.

[sometimes lowercase] the medieval Roman numeral for 200.Compare Roman numerals.

Music. the letter used in German to indicate the tone B.

[in prescriptions] an hour.

dope, drug, narcotic, smack, animation, blitheness, brightness, brilliance, cheer, color, conviviality, effervescence, elation, entertainment, exhilaration, festivity, frolic, fun, geniality, gladness

• It seems that Mr. H. is expecting not only me, he's expecting Thom Mount, the head of production at the studio.

• His sensitivity to this problem came out in his first sharp disagreement with his boss, VMI superintendent Francis H. Smith.

• G was a gamester, who had but ill-luck; H was a Hunter, who hunted a buck.

• The valve-seat H has formed on its lower surface two crescent shaped long and narrow slits.

  The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller

• For hadde [which gives no sense], read bad; confusion of b and h is not uncommon.

• Now Dabbler was a widower; he was not of prepossessing appearance, and his h's troubled him, but Dabbler was a warm man.

  The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II [of 3]|Charles James Wills

• William H. Riley, of Philadelphia, has been for years, one of the leading fashionable gentlemen's boot-makers.

noun plural h's, H's or Hs

the eighth letter and sixth consonant of the modern English alphabet

a speech sound represented by this letter, in English usually a voiceless glottal fricative, as in hat

1. something shaped like an H
2. [in combination]an H-beam

chess See algebraic notation

physics

1. magnetic field strength
2. Hamiltonian

electronics henry or henries

[on Brit pencils, signifying degree of hardness of lead] hardH; 2H; 3H Compare B [def. 9]

Hungary [international car registration]

The symbol forPlanck's constant

The symbol for the elementhydrogen

The symbol for Planck's constant.