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    24-HOUR INTERVAL

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axisplay

    Example:

    there are 30,000 passengers per day

    Synonyms:

    24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

    Hypernyms ("24-hour interval" is a kind of...):

    time unit; unit of time (a unit for measuring time periods)

    Meronyms (parts of "24-hour interval"):

    day; daylight; daytime (the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside)

    high noon; midday; noon; noonday; noontide; twelve noon (the middle of the day)

    dark; night; nighttime (the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside)

    60 minutes; hour; hr (a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "24-hour interval"):

    tomorrow (the day after today)

    today (the day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow))

    yesterday (the day immediately before today)

    morrow (the next day)

    eve (the day before)

    date; day of the month (the specified day of the month)

    date (a particular day specified as the time something happens)

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