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In many languages, there is no single word for a two-week period, and the equivalent terms "two weeks", "14 days", or "15 days" (
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period between a full moon and a new moon (and vice versa). This is equal to 14.07 days. It gives rise to a lunar fortnightly
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This article is about the unit of time measurement. For other uses, see
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Fortnightly
Fortnight (disambiguation)
Fortnite
days
weeks
Old English
nights
Eclipse cycle
astronomy
lunar synodic month
mean
tidal constituent
Long-period tides
counting inclusively
Celtic languages
Welsh
Irish
Greek
Hindu calendar
Sanskrit
lunar month
Romance languages
Galician
Spanish
Catalan
Portuguese
Italian
quinze jours
quinzaine
French

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