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:

    How selfhood begins with a walking away,
    And love is proved in the letting go.
    —C. Day Lewis (20th century)

    Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.
    Agustin Gomez-Arcos (b. 1939)

    Hath not the morning dawned with added light?
    And shall not evening call another star
    Out of the infinite regions of the night,
    To mark this day in Heaven? At last, we are
    A nation among nations; and the world
    Shall soon behold in many a distant port
    Another flag unfurled!
    Henry Timrod (1828–1867)