{
  "id": "days.temporal",
  "term": "days",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "days",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a piece of time that differs from the previous piece by a regular pattern",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "time.dimension",
      "pattern.regularity",
      "piece.portion",
      "difference.relation",
      "previous.temporal",
      "regular.frequency"
    ],
    "interaction": "as time is segmented into portions, differences between successive portions manifest through a repeating regular pattern, forming a day",
    "novel_properties": [
      "temporal recurrence",
      "bounded duration with rhythmic boundary",
      "successive distinction by repetition"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Earth completes one rotation every 23.93 hours, defining the sidereal day measured by astronomers at Greenwich Observatory.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Julian calendar assigned 365 days to a year, adding a leap day every four years starting in 45 BCE.",
      "domain": "history"
    },
    {
      "text": "Unix time counts days as 86400-second intervals since January 1, 1970, resetting at midnight UTC.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "time.dimension",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "pattern.regularity",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "calendar.tool",
    "daily.temporal",
    "friday.temporal",
    "holiday.leisure",
    "monday.temporal",
    "month.temporal",
    "summer.season",
    "sunday.day",
    "today.temporal",
    "tuesday.temporal",
    "wednesday.temporal",
    "week.temporal"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "day",
    "days"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts from definition: difference.relation, previous.temporal, regular.frequency. Definition matched components by retaining original wording which accurately reflects em"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-days.temporal"
}