# tuesday (temporal)

the second day of a week

- Computed level: L6 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: time  ·  Arena: tuesday.temporal

## 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), [second](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-second.temporal)

**Through:** when a sequence of days repeats in a regular cycle and one of them is the second in that cycle, this day is identified as Tuesday.

**Novel properties:**
- positioned recurrence
- cyclic ordering
- named temporal unit

## Examples
- The International Space Station orbited Earth every 90 minutes on Tuesday, 5 April 2022, as scheduled in NASA's weekly operations plan. *(engineering)*
- Black Tuesday, 29 October 1929, marked the stock market crash that intensified the Great Depression. *(economics)*
- The weekly Linux kernel release cycle advanced on Tuesday, 13 August 2019, when Linus Torvalds tagged version 5.3. *(computing)*

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

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-tuesday.temporal*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-tuesday.temporal.json*  
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