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- Diurnal - a. - Relating to the daytime; belonging to the period of daylight, distinguished from the night; -- opposed to nocturnal; as, diurnal heat; diurnal hours.
- Diurnal - a. - Daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal fever; a diurnal task; diurnal aberration, or diurnal parallax; the diurnal revolution of the earth.
- Diurnal - a. - Opening during the day, and closing at night; -- said of flowers or leaves.
- Diurnal - a. - Active by day; -- applied especially to the eagles and hawks among raptorial birds, and to butterflies (Diurna) among insects.
- Diurnal - a. - A daybook; a journal.
- Diurnal - a. - A small volume containing the daily service for the "little hours," viz., prime, tierce, sext, nones, vespers, and compline.
- Diurnal - a. - A diurnal bird or insect.
- Diurnalist - n. - A journalist.
- Diurnally - adv. - Daily; every day.
- Diurnalness - n. - The quality of being diurnal.
- Diurnal - a. - A diurnal bird or insect.
- Low - adv. - In a path near the equator, so that the declination is small, or near the horizon, so that the altitude is small; -- said of the heavenly bodies with reference to the diurnal revolution; as, the moon runs low, that is, is comparatively near the horizon when on or near the meridian.
- Urania - n. - A genus of large, brilliantly colored moths native of the West Indies and South America. Their bright colored and tailed hind wings and their diurnal flight cause them to closely resemble butterflies.
- Diurnal - a. - Relating to the daytime; belonging to the period of daylight, distinguished from the night; -- opposed to nocturnal; as, diurnal heat; diurnal hours.
- Diurnal - a. - Daily; recurring every day; performed in a day; going through its changes in a day; constituting the measure of a day; as, a diurnal fever; a diurnal task; diurnal aberration, or diurnal parallax; the diurnal revolution of the earth.
- Aberration - n. - A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and daily or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to 0.3''. Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth.
- Arc - n. - The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night.
- Heliostat - n. - An instrument consisting of a mirror moved by clockwork, by which a sunbeam is made apparently stationary, by being steadily directed to one spot during the whole of its diurnal period; also, a geodetic heliotrope.
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- G2183 ἐφημερία - 2183 ἐφημερία - ἘΦΗΜΕΡΊΑ - - ephēmería - ef-ay-mer-ee'-ah - from ἐφήμερος; diurnality, i.e. (specially) the quotidian rotation or class of the Jewish priests' service at the Temple, as distributed by families:--course. - Noun Feminine - greek
- G2184 ἐφήμερος - 2184 ἐφήμερος - ἘΦΉΜΕΡΟΣ - - ephḗmeros - ef-ay'-mer-os - from ἐπί and ἡμέρα; for a day ("ephemeral"), i.e. diurnal:--daily. - Adjective - greek