# saturday (temporal)

the part of time in a week that is after friday and before sunday

- Computed level: L16 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: time  ·  Arena: saturday.day

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [friday](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-friday.temporal), [sunday](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sunday.day), [part](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-part.relation), [time](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-time.dimension), [week](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-week.temporal)

**Through:** friday and sunday together define the part of time between them

**Novel properties:**
- intermediate day
- bounded duration
- cyclic position

## Examples
- In 2023, the New York Transit Authority delayed subway maintenance on the 4 line, causing cascading delays every Saturday. *(institutions)*
- The Mars rover Opportunity stopped transmitting on a Saturday in June 2018 during a planet-wide dust storm. *(space exploration)*
- Every Saturday, the Chicago Board Options Exchange halts trading in S&P 500 futures at 3 PM Central. *(economics)*

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