"What is last?" means we're looking for what came after everything else.
Imagine you have a line of toys: a teddy bear, a dinosaur, and a robot. If you ask "What is last?", it's like asking, which toy comes after all the others? That would be the robot, because it’s at the end of the line.
Now think about something you do every day, like eating breakfast. You might have cereal, then milk, then a piece of fruit. The last thing you eat is the fruit, that's what came after everything else.
Sometimes people ask "What is last?" when they're counting or putting things in order. It helps them know where they are in a list or a sequence.
You can also think about your day: morning, afternoon, evening. The last part of the day is evening, because it comes after morning and afternoon.
So "what is last?" is just asking, which thing came after everything else?
Examples
- The last piece of cake at a birthday party.
- The last letter in the alphabet.
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See also
- What is wait?
- What are leap seconds?
- How did time become quantifiable?
- How did time become something you could count?
- What are unix timestamps?