24 (twenty-four) is the natural number following 23 and preceding 25. It is one sixth of a gross. 24 is an even composite number, a highly composite number, an abundant number, a practical number, a congruent congruent number. An icositetragon is a regular polygon with 24 sides. The tesseract has 24 two-dimensional faces (which are all squares). 24 is the kissing number in 4-dimensional space.