Day

Day

A day is a unit of time. In common usage, it is an interval equal to 24 hours. It also can mean the consecutive period of time during which the Sun is above the horizon of a location, also known as daytime. The period of time measured from local noon to the following local noon is called a solar day.

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Famous quotes containing the word day:

    “I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “Every day the fat woman dies a series of small deaths.”
    —Shelley Bovey, U.S. author. Being Fat Is Not a Sin, ch. 1 (1989)