TWENTY-FOUR HOURS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does twenty-four hours mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TWENTY-FOUR HOURS (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 hours" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "twenty-four hours"):

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 hours"):

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)

 Context examples 

A little disordered always the first twenty-four hours of going to sea, but never knew what sickness was afterwards.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Twenty-four hours after vaccination, the dimerizing agent AP1903 is administered.

(Adenovector-transduced AP1903-inducible MyD88/CD40-expressing Autologous PSMA-specific Prostate Cancer Vaccine BPX-201, NCI Thesaurus)

A dose calculation unit expressed in milliliter(s) per animal per period of time equal to twenty-four hours.

(Milliliter per Animal per Day, NCI Thesaurus)

A dose calculation unit expressed in milliliter(s) per kilogram per period of time equal to twenty-four hours.

(Milliliter per Kilogram per Day, NCI Thesaurus)

A dose calculation unit expressed in milliliter(s) per gram per period of time equal to twenty-four hours.

(Milliliter per Gram per Day, NCI Thesaurus)

” Fanny thought and thought again of the difference which twenty-four hours had made in that room, and all that part of the house.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A frequency rate of occurrences of something within a period of time equal to twenty-four hours.

(Per Day, NCI Thesaurus)

A dose calculation unit expressed in gram(s) per period of time equal to twenty-four hours.

(Gram per 24 Hours, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A dose calculation unit expressed in milligram(s) per kilogram per period of time equal to twenty-four hours.

(Milligram per Kilogram per Day, NCI Thesaurus)

A dose calculation unit expressed in microgram(s) per square meter per period of time equal to twenty-four hours.

(Microgram per Square Meter per Day, NCI Thesaurus)