WordNet
n. time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; "two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day" [syn: day, solar day, mean solar day]
Usage examples of "twenty-four hours".
Three and a half years later, and barely twenty-four hours from his deadline, Paul has enough material to make even the most discriminating graduate programs salivate.
But there were also people swarming through the labyrinths of the Corridor as they always were, twenty-four hours a day.
He accoutred me with other necessaries all new, which I aired for twenty-four hours before I would use them.
It was the second time in twenty-four hours someone had pointed a gun at me, and I was beyond scared.
One man became psychotic twenty-four hours after the ingestion, others had psychotic episodes for months.
They wouldn't have told me in Australia and I've been in Vietnam less than twenty-four hours.
Although twenty-four hours had not yet passed by, Desnoyers was already considering it as a distant event of shadowy reality.