# friday (temporal)

the day that follows the fourth day of a week

- Computed level: L15 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: common  ·  Arena: emergence

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [days](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-days.temporal), [week](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-week.temporal), [four](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-four.cardinal), [follows](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-follows.sequential), [fourth](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-fourth.ordinal)

**Through:** The day follows the fourth day of a week and is the five part of the week.

**Novel properties:**
- fifth position in week
- ordinal succession
- weekly cycle alignment

## Examples
- On Friday, July 5, 2024, the New York Stock Exchange closed for Independence Day weekend. *(institutions)*
- The Mars rover Perseverance executed a scheduled software update on Friday, March 8, 2024, following NASA's weekly operations cycle. *(engineering)*
- In Tel Aviv, garbage collection resumed on Friday, January 12, 2024, after a two-day strike halted city services. *(everyday life)*

## Used by
- [saturday](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-saturday.temporal) (L16)

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-friday.temporal*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-friday.temporal.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*