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:

    “The eye repeats every day the first eulogy on things—”He saw that they were good.””
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day ... a movement is only people moving.”
    —Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)

    “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)