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:

    “It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber.”
    —Advertisement. Poster in a school near Irving Place, New York City (1983)

    “Our day will come.”
    —Slogan of the I.R.A.....

    “... you learned to compress almost everything in the first sentence, and the only phrase you needed was “plans were made to organize.” It took me a day to learn this, and that is all you have to learn in newspaper writing.”
    —Brenda Ueland (1891–1985)