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:

    “All day I’ve built
    a lifetime and now
    the sun sinks to
    undo it.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Art and power will go on as they have done,—will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “But I was thinking of a way
    To feed oneself on batter,
    And so go on from day to day
    Getting a little fatter.”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)