emergency vs zero hour

emergency

noun
  • Arising from or used in an emergency. 

  • A situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent attention. 

  • An individual brought in at short notice to replace a member of staff, a player in a sporting team, etc. 

  • The department of a hospital that treats emergencies. 

zero hour

noun
  • The scheduled time for the start of some event, especially a military operation; H-hour. 

How often have the words emergency and zero hour occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )