days · temporal

a piece of time that differs from the previous piece by a regular pattern

Days (noun) means: a piece of time that differs from the previous piece by a regular pattern. It emerges from time, pattern, piece, difference: as time is segmented into portions, differences between successive portions manifest through a repeating regular pattern, forming a day. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 4, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

Examples

• Earth completes one rotation every 23.93 hours, defining the sidereal day measured by astronomers at Greenwich Observatory. astronomy
• The Julian calendar assigned 365 days to a year, adding a leap day every four years starting in 45 BCE. history
• Unix time counts days as 86400-second intervals since January 1, 1970, resetting at midnight UTC. computing

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Chain to foundations

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Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

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