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daylight time

noun

Meaning

  1. The practice in some places of adjusting clocks forward in the spring and back in the fall, usually by one hour, so that the adjustment causes the time to coincide with the greatest period of illumination by the sun over the course of the day.

Etymology / origin

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Related words

daylight savings(English)daylight saving(English)daylight savings time(English)daylight-saving time(English)daylight saving time(English)daylight standard time(English)hour change(English)day time(English)

Descendant words

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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