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DAYLIGHT SAVING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Time during which clocks are set one hour ahead of local standard time; widely adopted during summer to provide extra daylight in the evenings
Synonyms:
daylight-saving time; daylight-savings time; daylight saving; daylight savings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("daylight saving" is a kind of...):
time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)