diurnal adj

1 belonging to or active during the day; "diurnal animals are active during the day"; "diurnal flowers are open during the day and closed at night" [ant: nocturnal]

2 having a daily cycle or occurring every day; "diurnal rhythms"; "diurnal rotation of the heavens"; "the diurnal slumber of bats"

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)nəl

Noun

1. A flower that opens only in the day
2. A book containing canonical offices but not matins
3. A diary or journal.
4. A daily news publication.

Translations

• Italian: diurno (2), diurnale (2,3,4)

Adjective

1. Occurring daily
2. Primarily active during the day.
3. Open during daylight hours, closed at night
4. Repeated or recurring daily. Having a daily cycle of completed actions in 24 hours and recurring every 24 hours. Thus, most reference is made to diurnal tasks, cycles, tides, or sunrise to sunset.

Antonyms

• nocturnal

Translations

• Dutch: dagelijks (1), dag- (2)
• Finnish: päivittäinen (1); päivä- (prefix of a compound word) (2)
• French: journalier (1), diurne (2)
• West Frisian: deisk (1), deistich (1), dei- (2)
• German: täglich (1), tagaktiv (2)
• Italian: diurno
• Icelandic: dagdýr (2)
• Swedish: dygn (3)

Diurnal ("daily") may refer to:

• Diurnality, the behavior of an animal that is active in the daytime
• Actions which are completed in 24 hours and are repeated every 24 hours, e.g. the sun reaching its zenith.
• Diurnal motion, the apparent motion of stars around the Earth, caused by the Earth's rotation around its axis. More generally it means repeating daily as in e.g. diurnal effect
• Diurnal phase shift, the phase shift of electromagnetic signals associated with daily changes in the ionosphere
• Diurnal temperature variation, the daily temperature shift that occurs from daytime to night

In astrology:

• Diurnal chart, a chart for a given date, based on the natal chart
• Diurnal planet, a planet in a sect for which the Sun is above the horizon
• Diurnal sign, a sign in the zodiac whose natural positions are on the southern hemisphere of the horoscope

In astronomy:

• Diurnal arc, the time, as expressed in right ascension, it takes a planet, point, or degree to move from its rising point to its setting point

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