fortnight
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A fortnight is a unit of time equal to 14 days (two weeks). The word derives from the Old English term , meaning "" (or "fourteen days", since the Anglo-Saxons counted by nights).
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- unit of time
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- FFF system
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- Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent
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- conversion to standard unit
- 14
- conversion to SI unit
- 1209600
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A fortnight is a unit of time equal to 14 days (two weeks). The word derives from the Old English term , meaning "" (or "fourteen days", since the Anglo-Saxons counted by nights).
==Astronomy and tides==
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