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:

    “A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    “... every day is any day.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.”
    —Patrick McGoohan (b. 1928)