calendar day

Definitions

1. 1

   A timespan of exactly 24 hours, measured from one midnight to the next.

   • Travel insurance is available at the special price of pounds 4 for one calendar day, pounds 10 up to 36 hours.
   • The $28 billion budget was approved by committees in both houses Wednesday. Since one calendar day must elapse before a floor vote, the votes will take place after midnight Thursday unless Republicans agree to suspend the rule.
   • "[T]he Games were stopped for a full 24 hours, though it was not a calendar day."
2. 2

   A day having a conventional designation on a recognized calendar, such as a numerical…

   A day having a conventional designation on a recognized calendar, such as a numerical identification within a named month.

   • '[T]is wonderful where or when we ever got anything of this which we call wisdom, poetry, virtue. We never got it on any dated calendar day.
   • My story started on a calendar day — July 2nd,1977 — and ended on a calendar day — February 14th, 1978 — but in between there was no calendar.
   • The number 666 has long held significance . . . that it's a mark of the devil. But now that the actual calendar day is about to arrive — on Tuesday, 6/6/06 — it's not only the superstitious among us who are looking ahead nervously.

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