TWENTY-FOUR HOUR PERIOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does twenty-four hour period mean? 

• TWENTY-FOUR HOUR PERIOD (noun)
  The noun TWENTY-FOUR HOUR PERIOD has 1 sense:

1. time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

  Familiarity information: TWENTY-FOUR HOUR PERIOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWENTY-FOUR HOUR PERIOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

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

Context example:

there are 30,000 passengers per day

Hypernyms ("twenty-four hour period" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "twenty-four hour period"):

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 "twenty-four hour period"):

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)