nychthemeron
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thumb|The Nychthemeron Clock in Snowshill Manor, Gloucestershire, UK Nychthemeron , occasionally nycthemeron or nuchthemeron, is a period of 24 consecutive hours. It is sometimes used, especially in technical literature, to avoid the ambiguity inherent in the term day.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- unit of time
- Image
- Snowshill nychthemeron clock.jpg
- Said to be same as
- day
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- conversion to standard unit
- 24
- conversion to SI unit
- 86400
- Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent
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- different from
- day's run
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thumb|The Nychthemeron Clock in Snowshill Manor, Gloucestershire, UK Nychthemeron , occasionally nycthemeron or nuchthemeron, is a period of 24 consecutive hours. It is sometimes used, especially in technical literature, to avoid the ambiguity inherent in the term day.
It is the period of time that a calendar normally labels with a date, although a nychthemeron simply designates a time-span that can start at any time, not just midnight.
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