In general, a night service is any service that operates at night, such as a night-time public transport service or a 24-hour telephone support service.
Night service in particular is also a feature of private branch exchanges and business telephone systems, whereby for a set period during the day (usually those hours outside of normal office or work hours, when normal operator services are not provided), incoming calls are automatically redirected by the switchboard to particular telephones or other equipment (such as an answering machine, auto attendant, voice mail system, or the duty station of a night watchman).
Famous quotes containing the words night and/or service:
“In the declining day the thoughts make haste to rest in darkness, and hardly look forward to the ensuing morning. The thoughts of the old prepare for night and slumber. The same hopes and prospects are not for him who stands upon the rosy mountain-tops of life, and him who expects the setting of his earthly day.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching. How far off, how cool, how chaste the persons look, begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary!”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)