# monday (temporal)

the first day of the week following the previous day in time

- Computed level: L10 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: everyday  ·  Arena: monday

## 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), [first](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-first.order), [previous](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-previous.temporal), [follows](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-follows.sequential), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension)

**Through:** the day is ordered in time by following the prior day and marking the start of a repeating weekly cycle

**Novel properties:**
- initial weekly position
- temporal succession
- cyclical ordering

## Examples
- On Monday, 3 July 2023, the Tokyo Stock Exchange resumed trading after the weekend closure. *(economics)*
- The Mars rover Perseverance executed a pre-planned software update on Monday, 12 February 2024, following its Sunday sleep cycle. *(engineering)*
- The weekly bulletin from the UK Met Office is issued every Monday at 06:00 UTC, forecasting weather for the coming week. *(institutions)*

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